Elvis Costello

A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars. 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. Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world's greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. Unfaithful Music describes how Costello's career has somehow 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. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.

Deluxe Edition

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink

Pionnier de la scène Pub Rock, plus tard associé au New Wave, membre actif de la Jazz Foundation of America, Elvis Costello résume à lui seul plusieurs décennies de musique populaire. Né Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello a grandi à Londres et à Liverpool. Fils et petit-fils de musiciens, ses premiers pas sur la voie tracée par ses aînés consistèrent à gratter une guitare en carton dans le salon familial, mais le menèrent bien vite dans les plus fameuses salles de concert de la planète, accompagné des partenaires les plus variés. Cette autobiographie retrace la formidable carrière de celui qui a désormais sa place dans le Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, entre humour et autodérision lorsqu’il s’étonne de son propre succès, et émotion lorsqu’il se demande à quoi bon écrire encore des chansons que son père défunt ne pourra pas écouter... Auteur-compositeur-interprète prolifique dont la carrière s’étend sur plus de quarante ans, Elvis Costello a été classé par le magazine Rolling Stones dans la liste des cent plus grands artistes de tous les temps.

Musique infidèle et encre sympathique

Burt Bacharach

A fantastic collaboration between two titans of pop. Songs include: God Give Me Strength * I Still Have That Other Girl * In the Darkest Place * The Long Division * My Thief * Painted from Memory * Such Unlikely Lovers * The Sweetest Punch * Tears at the Birthday Party * This House Is Empty Now * Toledo * What's Her Name Today?

Painted from Memory : Piano, Vocal, Chords

Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach

Trouweloze muziek en verdwijnende inkt / druk 1

Michael Elliott

"You already know John Hiatt is one of our best songwriters, but what you might not know is his life is as great a story as his songs. . . . I thought I knew my John Hiatt, but I learned a lot." —David Menconi, author of Step It Up and Go A journey through an artist's quest for success, deep dive into substance abuse, family tragedy, and ultimate triumph By the mid-1980s, singer-songwriter John Hiatt had been dropped from three record labels, burned through two marriages, and had fallen deep into substance abuse. It took a stint in rehab and a new marriage to inspire him, then a producer and an A&R man to have a little faith. By February 1987, he was back in the studio on a shoestring budget with a hand-picked supergroup consisting of Ry Cooder on guitar, Nick Lowe on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums, recording what would become his masterpiece, Bring the Family. Based on author Michael Elliott's multiple extensive and deeply personal interviews with Hiatt as well as his collaborators and contemporaries, including Rosanne Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, and many others, Have a Little Faithis the journey through the musical landscape of the 1960s through today that places Hiatt's long career in context with the glossy pop, college-alternative, mainstream country, and heartland rock of the last half-century. Hiatt's life both pre- and post-Family will be revealed, as well as the music loved by critics, fellow musicians, and fans alike.

The John Hiatt Story

Have a Little Faith

Elvis Costello växte upp i London och Liverpool. Hans far var jazzmusiker så musikintresset kom tidigt. I tjugoårsåldern hade han redan tagit musikvärlden med storm.↵↵Elvis Costellos låtlista och musikskatt är enorm. Han har spelat på de flesta kända scenerna världen över som soloartist samt i alla möjliga sammanhang. I boken beskriver han sin karriär och hur han har överlevt under nästan fyra årtionden i musikbranschen. Han delar också med sig av hur vissa låtar har kommit till och fascinerande historier om olika samarbeten han har haft. En omistlig bok för alla fans men även för dem som bara är allmänt intresserade av musik.

Skamlös musik & bleknande bläck

"Mit guten Manieren und schlechtem Atem kommt man nirgendwo hin." Getreu dieser Devise sang Elvis Costello in seinem Protestsong gegen Margaret Thatcher, er werde auf ihrem Grab stehen und darauf herumtrampeln. Bei seinem legendären Auftritt bei Saturday Night Live stellte er sich der Zensur von Bands wie den Sex Pistols im Radio entgegen. Bis heute nimmt Costello bei seiner Kritik an politischen Missständen und jeder Form von Nationalismus nie ein Blatt vor den Mund. In den dreißig Alben, mit denen der Brite seit 1977 Erfolge feiert, erfand sich der eigenwillige Künstler immer wieder neu. Seine rauen Anfänge lagen zwischen Rock, New Wave und Punk − und schon damals erreichte er ein Millionenpublikum. Mit "She", aufgenommen für die romantische Komödie "Notting Hill", rührte er die Herzen aller Liebenden. Über alle Hinwendungen zu so unterschiedlichen Stilrichtungen wie Country, Folk, Motown, Jazz, Ska und Klassik hinweg begeistert Costello seine Fans − und ist dabei in Deutschland gerade mit seinen jüngsten Alben besonders erfolgreich. Elvis Costellos Buch erklärt die Hintergründe seiner legendären Songtexte und berührt durch seine Poesie.

Elvis Costello

About

Books

Join the club