Word: costello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grooves are starting to wear out on my Elvis Costello album, and I grow more and more impatient with those who dismiss this "new wave" of really interesting music out of hand while they keep tuning in the same old Phoebe Snow when it's snowing out, or, even when it's not, allowing themselves to fall prey to a music industry which thinks it can sustain itself by suffusing everything with progressively less-and-less-thinly-veiled sexual imagery and by deifying preposterous 40-year old monstrosities like Heart and Queen and Kiss...
Among the top straw-poll choices for Commencement Speaker: 1) The Shah of Iran; 2) Liza Minelli; 3) Neil Armstrong; 4) Pope Paul; 5) Sherman Holcombe; 6) Halston; 7)KAL; 8) Elvis Costello...
Like his countryman Graham Parker, Costello combines the punch of early rock forms with very contemporary lyrics. In Radio, Radio he jabs at Top 40 conservatism that he feels has helped throttle pop creativity for a decade...
...Costello's underdog sympathies come easily. Born Declan Patrick McManus, he was the only child of a marriage that ended when his father, a jazz trumpeter and cabaret singer, hit the road for good. Costello grew up in a blue-collar section of London. At 18 he became a computer man in a nearby suburb. His first songs were composed to the whir of machines and the rumble of trains, and on weekends he scratched for pickup jobs as a guitarist...
Last year he signed on with a small London record company, accepting an amp and tape recorder as his only advance. For his stage name, he borrowed immodestly from rock 'n' roll's first king and then picked Costello from his mum's side of the family. A couple of singles recorded during his days off led to his only album so far, My Aim Is True. When CBS Records executives came to town last July for their international convention, Costello grabbed his guitar, rushed over to the London Hilton and staged a street-corner audition...