Unfaithful music & disappearing ink /

Unfaithful music & disappearing ink /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Costello, Elvis, author.
Imprint:	New York : Blue Rider Press, [2015]
Description:	674 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Costello, Elvis. Costello, Elvis. Rock musicians -- Biography. Rock musicians -- England -- Biography. Rock musicians. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10384699

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Varying Form of Title:	Unfaithful music and disappearing ink
ISBN:	9780399167256 0399167250
Summary:	Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four. "Unfaithful Music" describes how Costello's career has endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom. The memoir, written entirely by Costello himself, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best known songs and the hits of tomorrow. It contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, although Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy.

Table of Contents:

1. A White Boy in the Hammersmith Palais
2. Then They Expect You to Pick a Career
3. Don't Start Me Talking
4. Ask Me Why
5. Beyond Belief
6. London's Brilliant Parade
7. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
8. Roll Up for the Ghost Train
9. Almost Liverpool 8
10. Welcome to the Working Week
11. No Trams to Lime Street
12. I Hear the Train a-Comin'
13. Unfaithful Music
14. Scene at 6.30
15. Unfaithful Servant
16. There's a Girl in a Window
17. It Mek
18. America Without Tears
19. Accidents May Happen
20. I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
21. What Do I Have to Do to Make You Love Me?
22. Talking in the Dark
23. Is He Really Going Out with Her?
24. Diving for Dear Life
25. It's a Wonderful Life
26. The Color of the Blues
27. The Identity Parade
28. The River in Reverse
29. That's When a Thrill Becomes a Hurt
30. I Want to Vanish
31. Put Away Forbidden Playthings
32. They Never Got Me for the Thing I Really Did
33. A Voice in the Dark
34. Country Darkness / Narrow Daylight
35. I'm in the Mood Again
36. Down Among the Wines and Spirits
Postscript: The Black Tongue of the North End
Acknowledgments