Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello
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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 before he was twenty-four took the popular music world by storm.Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of our day. His performances have taken him from strumming a cardboard guitar in his parents’ front room to fronting a rock and roll band on our television screens and performing in the world’s greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink 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.This memoir, written entirely by Costello, 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 features many stories and observations about his renowned cowriters and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations of the less appealing side of fame. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink provides readers with a master’s catalogue of a lifetime of great music. Costello reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is True, This Year’s Model, Armed Forces, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, and King of America. He tells the detailed stories, experiences, and emotions behind such beloved songs as “Alison,” “Accidents Will Happen,” “Watching the Detectives,” “Oliver’s Army,” “Welcome to the Working Week,” “Radio Radio,” “Shipbuilding,” and “Veronica,” the last of which is one of a number of songs revealed to connect to the lives of the previous generations of his family.Costello recounts his collaborations with George Jones, Chet Baker, and T Bone Burnett, and writes about Allen Toussaint's inspiring return to work after the disasters following Hurricane Katrina. He describes writing songs with Paul McCartney, the Brodsky Quartet, Burt Bacharach, and The Roots during moments of intense personal crisis and profound sorrow. He shares curious experiences in the company of The Clash, Tony Bennett, The Specials, Van Morrison, and Aretha Franklin; writing songs for Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash; and touring with Bob Dylan; along with his appreciation of the records of Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, David Ackles, and almost everything on the Tamla Motown label.Costello chronicles his musical apprenticeship, a child's view of his father Ross MacManus' career on radio and in the dancehall; his own initial almost comical steps in folk clubs and cellar dive before his first sessions for Stiff Record, the formation of the Attractions, and his frenetic and ultimately notorious third U.S. tour. He takes readers behind the scenes of Top of the Pops and Saturday Night Live, and his own show, Spectacle, on which he hosted artists such as Lou Reed, Elton John, Levon Helm, Jesse Winchester, Bruce Springsteen, and President Bill Clinton. The idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic.
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello - Amazon Sales Rank: #24741 in Books
- Brand: Blue Rider Press
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.56" w x 6.35" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 688 pages
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello Review “….Some of the best writing – funny, strange, spiteful, anguished – we’ve ever had from an important musician.” –Dwight Garner, New York Times “In a world littered with uneven (and largely ghosted) celebrity memoirs, “Disappearing Ink” is a beautifully written revelation. Dare I blaspheme by declaring I liked it even more than the excellent memoirs produced by Bob Dylan and Keith Richards? Costello embraces the basic qualities of good storytelling: the use of detail, tension and humor…..The book is also a gold mine for Costello obsessives who have spent decades dissecting and analyzing his every lyrical zinger. But it’s not just for fans, more “Angela’s Ashes” than Motley Crue’s “The Dirt.” “Unfaithful Music” is a lyrical tale that stretches across generations, geography and a century of popular song. The book serves as both a musical and personal anthropology.“ –Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post “The book is fantastic - maybe the best about music by a musician that I've read….The stuff about the collaborations alone - McCartney, Burt Bacharach, Allen Toussaint, the Roots, the Brodsky Quartet - is riveting.” –Nick Hornby "Often brilliant and wholly idiosyncratic." –David Ulin, Los Angeles Times ”[Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink] is refreshingly free of salacious gossip and needless name-dropping; it's an intelligent self-assessment from a musician who went from angry young man to elder statesman of pop… It's an unexpected memoir from a musician whose creativity and brilliance changed pop rock forever.” —Michael Schaub, NPR “Revelatory, evocatively crafted, [and] highly entertaining.” –David Fricke, Rolling Stone “A winningly droll and good-natured guide to his life and many works throughout.” –Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly “Punctuated with sardonic and self-aware truths.” – Pitchfork"Just like his music, Unfaithful Music constantly defies expectations and the simple pleasures of faraway days. Written in a clipped, biting style, the book reads like Costello's greatest songs, equally lyrical and hard to pin down. It's a constantly illuminating, perpetually idiosyncratic read, fitting for a musician whose entire life has been one long reinvention…. For 670 brilliant pages, we're allowed to tag along with one of the greats, witnessing the unchanging beauty of a man who refuses to settle down on his quest of musical self-exploration—and we're all better off for it. " –Chicago Reader“Vivid….It's not surprising that one of rock's most literate songwriters would pen such a deep, free-form memoir.” – Houston Chronicle“Elvis Costello delivers an impeccably detailed autobiography. He’s often as brilliant at turning a phrase in prose as he is in his lyrics.” – Paste Magazine “Enthralling…. This is family history as musical encyclopedia, and to listen to Costello recount his life is to be buttonholed by an enthusiastic fan. Fandom for Costello is inseparable from the compulsion to write songs and, it seems, to understand his own life…. Fortunately for the fan of Costello’s music the topic of discussion is often his own songs, and he is, unsurprisingly, a witty and eloquent guide.” —Paul Grimstad, New Republic “Long one of music's wittiest, smartest, and most perceptive lyricists, Costello has done his legacy proud with his new book, which, thankfully, goes far beyond his angry-young-man days, most movingly in its frequent reminiscences about the relationship between the singer and his musician father.” —New York Magazine “[Costello] pens books with the same clever writing that he uses in song.” —Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel “Costello[‘s] book is capacious, clever, and full of heart and soul.” —Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer “The story unfolds like a movie that jumps across time, more thematic than chronological, as boyhood anecdotes and obsessions intersect with mature songs and adult reckoning…. The book doubles as a selective mini-history of 20th century music, as told by a discerning guide. He addresses artists both towering (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash) and relatively unheralded (David Ackles, Robert Wyatt) with a fan's affection and music scholar's insight.” –Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune"With an encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation for, and deep love of, music, and with an expressive power and heart, Costello’s memoir will take its place in the highest echelons of the genre." --Library Journal (starred review)“This is a big book, literally, by one of the best rockers in the business. Given the singular, and eclectic, nature of his career, it is no surprise that Elvis Costello’s anecdotal autobiography is an idiosyncratic journey through his music and the people and places that have inspired him…A must for Costello fans everywhere.” --Booklist (starred review) “Costello’s prose cuts with the same spiky wit and observational power as his well-known lyrics…packed with great lines, vivid anecdotes…a treat for his many fans.” —Kirkus Reviews “Plenty of tales to keep the pages turning. Readers will be fascinated by Costello’s stories…his book feels like a discussion between friends over a pint.” —Publishers Weekly"Costello is one the greatest writers of the 20th Century. It's funny, observant and clear of purpose." --Times "By turns lachrymose, self-flagellating and impassioned. Unsurprisingly, it is beautifully written. It is also often extraordinarily moving." --Dan Cairns, Sunday Times "Written elliptically, episodically beautiful ... this man's knowledge is breath-taking." --Observer "Every page exudes his deep love and knowledge of modern music." --The Guardian "His witty, word-playing voice transmits loud and clear....there are smart snapshots of vanished worlds...all his sins and virtues are displayed in this stylish, astute book." Victoria Segal, Sunday Times "A truly weighty rock memoir ... There's plenty of insight into his art here, a smattering of gossip, a wealth of pop-cultural knowledge, and just enough self-flagellation to keep things interesting." --NME "A series of wryly comic tales that surely deserve the full Penguin Classic treatment randomly afford Morrissey."--GQ "One of the finest musical biographies I have ever read ... an engrossing and rewarding read." Keith Bruce, The Herald "It really is stunning. Hugely illuminating, fiercely passionate, funny, moving and beautifully written." --Mark Billingham
About the Author Elvis Costello is a Grammy award-winning musician whose career spans almost four decades. A prolific singer-songwriter, Costello has released several critically-acclaimed albums, and in 2003 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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64 of 69 people found the following review helpful. A must read from one of the great songwriters of our time By Mr. T. Anderson I still remember my first encounter with Elvis Costello’s music. It was the John Peel show on the radio of course, the song was Less than Zero, and I found it captivating: distinctive voice, catchy melody, and above all words that were evocative, mysterious and vaguely menacing even though I didn’t fully understand them. I snapped up the album My Aim is True when it was released a few months later and have been a fan ever since, following the twists and turns of his career from punk rock to R&B to country to collaborations with jazz, classical and hip-hop musicians.Costello is an amazing wordsmith and songs pour out of him, such that many of his B sides and outtakes are more than equal to the best work of many others, a characteristic he shares only I think with Bob Dylan – who makes a regular appearance here as they encounter each other and end up performing together on a number of occasions.Now this is his book, 36 chapters (plus postscript) and approaching 700 pages. It is an excellent read, presuming you have some time for the man or an interest in the music scene of the last forty or so years. Writing in short pithy paragraphs (just as you would expect) Costello tells the story of his life, his bands, his writing, his father Ross MacManus who was also a singer, girls girls girls, and along the way recounts many entertaining and often alcoholic incidents of life on the road.The rhythm of the book is somewhat staccato and the sequence of events is only loosely chronological – that is, there is more about his earlier years in the first half of the book, and more about his later years in the second, but he constantly jumps back in forth in time making literary counterpoints. His habit of ending an anecdote just when you thought it was getting going can be annoying; but he is never dull.It would be an interesting exercise to rearrange, or attempt to rearrange, the book into chronological order, but I don’t fancy doing it with my printed copy.There are black and white photos interspersed throughout the book; they don’t look great partly because they are printed on paper designed for text. In addition they have no captions. A shame.Costello writes a lot about his father, and in some ways the book is a tribute to him. He writes of his statement a couple of years ago that he would give up making records, which at the time he said was about spending more time with his children. “The real reason was that I needed time to imagine how I could bear to write songs and not be able to play them for my father. Watching him listen to music was irreplaceable to me,” he says.Such passages are where Costello shows most emotion.One good reason to read the book is for insight into Costello’s songwriting. Some songs are described in detail, often including how they were influenced by or borrow from existing music, and how the words came together. One of my favourite passages (since I am a fan of both) is a conversation with Dylan:“One night Bob Dylan said to me: ‘U2! How could they do that to you? How could they take your song like that!“It took me a moment to know what he was talking about, and a moment more to realize that he was putting me on. But then, U2’s ‘Get on your boots’ was probably to ‘Pump it up’ what ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ is to Chuck Berry’s ‘Too much monkey business’.”Costello is a performer and the book is in a way a performance; I wish it were less so, but perhaps if so it would be less entertaining.There is a sharp side to Costello which occasionally goes too far. He writes of early days with Stiff (the independent record label responsible for his first releases) and the threat of being paired with another singer, “a horrible little git called Eric, who’d stumbled into the office with a single decent song.” Did he have to say that?One thing which comes over powerfully though is his love of music and absolute belief in its importance. Of music he says, “There is no superior. There is no high and low. The beautiful thing is, you don’t have to choose, you can love it all. Those songs are there to help you when you need them most.”That in the end is the great thing about Unfaithful Music and disappearing Ink; it will inspire you to go back to the music, both from Costello and from others, and perhaps even to go beyond your comfort zone and explore some artists you may have missed or dismissed. He did.This is among the most enjoyable music books I have read; recommended
64 of 73 people found the following review helpful. Mostly For Fans Only By Pete Zolli This book, in one sense, provided more insight into its subject than I ever expected to get, and in another, disappointed me.As a long-time Costello follower, I knew that he could write very clear, literate prose. And this book certainly delivers in that regard. Compared to most other non-ghost-written rock autobios (Neil Young comes to mind), this is Proust. Consider the writing to be on par with Dylan's "Chronicles." So that's all very good.However, I found this book to border on boring at times. You will learn A LOT about Costello's familial forebears... Really, far more than anyone not named McManus could be expected to find interesting. You will also hear endless accounts of EC's encounters with his musical heroes. While the tone of these anecdotes is usually, "OMG, I can't believe I got to do a gig with ________," nothing very interesting beyond that gratitude is usually presented, and it all starts to just sound like name-dropping after a while.But really, my main source of disappointment was this: Knowing Costello to be a subtle, sophisticated thinker with an excellent command of language, I had hoped this might just be an out-and-out GREAT BOOK, by any measure you wished to apply. It's not; it's just a much better than average autobiography from a public figure. Oh well; I'm sure it was unfair to expect more. But I think there was reason to hope. ;^)So those are some of my criticisms. On the other hand, what this book does is convey a rather powerful sense of what it is to *BE* Declan McManus/Elvis Costello. You will (SPOILERS?) find a deeply moral man, haunted by his Catholic upbringing, and wracked with guilt over the mis-steps he's made in his life. It's fascinating reading, but he is so honest about his failings that it seems almost disquieting. As if we really ought not to look. But this is what he decided to present to us, so there it is... And it must have taken almost unimaginable courage to do so.So in conclusion, this book is not a page-turner, and is not the best way for a new or casual fan to become more familiar with Costello and his work. But for the serious fan, this is more insight into Costello's heart, mind and spirit than we could ever have expected to receive. I thank him for it.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Daring, brilliant, and very moving. By Wild Bill Jones Astonishing book. Full of sharp, surprising, indelible images and turns of phrase and thought. The digressive structure, in which an anecdote from one period in EC's life will trigger an episode from a very different period, is daring and works brilliantly. Readers who need a strict adherence to chronology should read somebody else's book. But anyone who enjoy's Elvis Costello's inventiveness and originality in performance ought to be knocked out by this big feast. It is funny, very moving in many places, full of terrific episodes, and very human. Great photos, too.
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