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.
This memoir, written with the same
inimitable touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his
personal archive, 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.
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello
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