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Elvis Costello Wiki Biography

Declan Patrick MacManus was born on 25 August 1954, in Paddington, London, England of Irish ancestry. Elvis is a musician, record producer, singer and songwriter probably still best known for his success during the 1970s with albums such as “My Aim is True” and “Armed Forces”. He also formed the band The Attractions, and his numerous endeavors have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Elvis Costello? As of mid-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $60 million, mostly earned through his success in the music industry. He’s won multiple awards and has also written songs for films. He’s still very active, and as he continues his career his wealth is expected to rise even further.

Elvis attended Archbishop Myers RC School which is now known as St Mark’s Catholic Secondary School. While he was still a student, he often helped his father who was a musician, and they recorded a commercial for R. White’s Lemonade. He then formed the folk band Rusty when he moved to Cheshire, and completed secondary education at St. Francis Xavier’s College. After his studies, he went back to London and created the band Flip City. He also started to use the stage name D.P. Costello in recognition of his father who had used the stage name Day Costello. While trying to start to his music career, he worked various jobs. Eventually, he was signed by Stiff Records, and they recommended that he use the stage name Elvis Costello, a mix of Elvis Presley and his father’s stage name.

He released his first album “My Aim Is True” in 1977, and it found success in both the UK and the US; he signed with Columbia Records a few months later to ensure that his music would be distributed in the United States. Elvis then formed his own backing band named The Attractions who included Bruce Thomas, Steve Nieve, and Pete Thomas. They first performed as a replacement for the Sex Pistols in “Saturday Night Live”, but stopped the intro of their first song to play “Radio Radio” which the executives did not want them to play. Elvis was then banned from the show, but their popularity increased considerably after this event.

Costello continued to perform and tour around the country, and two years later released his third album “Armed Forces”. He found controversy for a time in the same year, after making racist comments against James Brown and Ray Charles while he was drunk – it would be a while before he apologized for his acts. In the 1980s he released “Get Happy!!” which became a huge success despite being far from the normal genre that they were known for. In 1981, he released “Trust” but around this time he was already having tensions with the Attractions. He then released “Almost Blue” which had country song covers and “Imperial Bedroom” which had a darker tone than usual. In 1983, he released “Punch the Clock” but tensions with the band reached its peak and Elvis announced that the group was breaking up. He also mentioned that it was probably time for him to retire. Eventually, after performing with other groups, Costello and The Attractions recorded the album “Blood and Chocolate” and after that, he would officially leave The Attractions and his contract with Columbia Records also ended.

After the break, Costello continued to perform well into the 90s and 2000s, releasing “She” during 1999 for the soundtrack of “Notting Hill”. He also continued to collaborate with other artists, releasing various songs, albums and even a memoir.

For his personal life, it is known that he has married three times, firstly to Mary Burgoyne in 1974 and they had a son but divorced in 1984, meantime being linked with Bebe Buell. However, in 1986 he married Cait O’Riordan but they divorced in 2002. He has been married to Diana Krall since 2003 and they have twin sons.

IMDB Wikipedia “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!” (2008) “Armed Forces” (1979) “My Aim Is True” (1977) “Putting the River in Reverse” (2006) “The Delivery Man” (2004) “The River in Reverse”(2006) “Trust” (1981) “When I Was Cruel” (2002) “Blood and Chocolate” (1986) $60 Million 1954-08-25 200 Cigarettes (1999) Academy Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (2003) Alzheimer’s disease Amusement park Archbishop Myers R.C. School Arthur Miller Assemblies of God Blues British Bruce Thomas Cait O’Riordan (m. 1986–2002) Declan Patrick MacManus Diana Krall (m. 2003) Elvis Costello Elvis Costello and The Attractions Elvis Costello Net Worth Elvis Presley England High Fidelity (2000) I Love Your Work (2003) James Brown Lilian Alda Live London Mary Burgoyne (m. 1974–1984) Musician Notting Hill (1999) Paddington Pete Thomas Ray Charles Record producer Ross McManus Satellite Award for Best Original Song (1996) Singer Songwriter Soundtrack Spice World (1997) St. Francis Xavier’s College Steve Nieve The Shape of Things (2003) United States Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)

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Elvis Costello Trademarks

1. Fender guitars
2. Black horn rim glasses

Elvis Costello Quotes

• I don’t know much about Morrissey. Apart from the fact he sometimes brings out records with the greatest titles in the world that somewhere along the line he then neglects to write songs for.
• [on Margaret Thatcher and ‘Tramp The Dirt Down’] The song’s not a party political broadcast, there’s no manifesto. It just says, ‘I’ll only be happy when this woman’s dead.’ And some people no doubt might find that extreme. But it’s meant to be. I make no apology for that song. It’s an honest emotional response to events, and writing it was like casting out demons or something. And the song itself is the result of a form of madness, because when you get to that point of thinking these thoughts, actually wishing somebody dead, it really does become a form of madness. It’s a psychopathic thought. And it’s fucking disturbing to find it in your own head. But it would be cowardly not to express it. Because once it’s there, if you don’t get it out, it’s only going to come back and haunt you some more. I also think you have to remember that it’s not only her that the song is aimed at. It’s what she represents. The way she’s changed the way people value things. It’s like some kind of mass hypnosis she’s achieved. People are afraid to speak out. You know, one thing I thought I’d be asked when people heard it was whether I was saying it might’ve been a good thing if she’d died in the Brighton bombing. I don’t think so. It would have made things 10 times worse, because then she would have been a martyr. We would have had a dead queen. So really, in a profound sense, the song is hopeless. It’s a hopeless argument. Because I think it’s a hopeless situation. So, no, it’s not in a large, historical sense, going to change anything.
• Generally, I think the best that can be achieved by songs like ‘Tramp The Dirt Down’ is something like ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ achieved. The record didn’t get Mandela released, but it did increase the membership of the anti-apartheid movement, because Jerry Dammers very intelligently printed their address on the sleeve. And the record introduced Mandela to a lot of people who maybe otherwise would never have heard of him. And there’s a point where political art only works on that level – the communication of basic information.
• [on Steve Nieve] He is incredible, and I don’t think he gets nearly enough notice for the work that he’s done. Both as a composer and certainly in the work we’ve done together, he’s constantly surprising. It’s hard to say what he’s playing half the time, and what instruments he’s playing: all sorts of sounds are coming out. It’s fantastic.
• Everything in show business is [theatrical] to a degree, you know. You don’t go up there in your street clothes. And I’ve worked with a nom de guerre – a nom de plume, a nom de plank – all my career. So to me it’s not unusual to take on a character to go up there. It doesn’t make what you’re singing about less sincere.
• I get to play festival occasions with an orchestra – a jazz orchestra or a symphony orchestra. Believe me, that stops it from getting monotonous. Each performance requires slightly different dynamics really, really keeps the music from getting routine.
• My mother tells the story of me bringing a 45 home and saying, ‘It’s unbreakable!’ and bending it…and it broke.
• It was difficult to develop an original style. I have no idea who it was I might have been imitating, whether consciously or unconsciously.
• Was I purposefully fucking up my life to give myself something to write about? I think I did that for about a year. At the very most. Then I began to mistrust the results. Because if you do that, it’s like when they pour acid in rabbit’s eyes or something. What does it prove? It proves that it hurts the animal. Very smart. It’s unnecessary research. And I guess I did some unnecessary research for a while. Then I’d write something that would scare the hell out of me. Like there’s a couple of songs on Get Happy!! that, when I read them back, I just scared the hell out of myself. And I thought, ‘Uh-uh…better not think any more about this…it’s going too far.’ Because you can think too fucking much, you know? And it gets a bit fucking evil.
• I’ll never admit that I’m drunk. But we all drink. And sometimes it’s for the right reasons…to let your mind off the leash for a while and have a bit of fun, and then you don’t mind if you make a bit of a prat of yourself. And it doesn’t matter if you end up shouting at people, or have a punch-up or whatever, as long as you wake up the same person. It’s when you don’t want to wake up the same person that you’ve got a problem.
• It’s when you’re drinking and you’re not happy, that’s when you’ve got to worry. That’s when it’s gonna affect the way you look at things, because you’re probably drinking for the wrong reasons. And that’s when things start to get warped and you don’t think anything through.
• Do I resent people looking for the autobiographical in my songs? No, I don’t resent it. I just blame John Lennon. It’s The Plastic Ono Band, that album started it all. After that, everything was supposed to be fucking confessional. The early ’70s were full of all these people baring their fucking souls for public scrutiny. There were records whose authenticity depended on their confessional aspect, and if you read certain magazines and the background interviews, you knew what these songs were about. And that, for me, always used to spoil it. Particularly when you found out what dickheads some of the people were that they were writing about. I’d rather have them be like Smokey Robinson songs, which could be about anyone.
• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.
• [on Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks”] It might be the best record of original thought that anybody’s ever made. It’s so completely unlike anything that went before it. And the vocal performances are the freest that I think Van ever recorded.
• You can always say it could be better, but if you’re not careful with ambition, the next thing you know you’re sailing a statue of yourself down the river . . .
• Sometimes doing an old song is like returning to the text of a play. It’s not invalid, just because it’s old, otherwise nobody would be acting [William Shakespeare]–not to say that everything I do is Shakespeare!. But it’s inevitable that it changes its meaning or impact. That’s why I never really sing anything from a nostalgic point of view, because even if it’s 25 years old, it’s in the moment. That’s the beauty of live performance.
• Be nice to the British boy. I’m the only ally you have left.
• There is something kind of absurd about people who live in such a comfortable, cushioned, spoiled society tattooing themselves and piercing themselves to make them appear tribal. We’re trying to act like we’re some sort of tribe that’s been discovered in the mall.

Elvis Costello Important Facts

• Prefers to be called by his birth name by family and when not performing.
• He is of Irish descent.
• Elvis’ new band, the “Imposters” break new album “The Delivery Man” [2004]
• Latest Album “North” to be released in September 2003 [August 2003]
• One of the stories behind his stage name is that the singer–whose real name is Declan McManus–took the first name of his favorite singer, Elvis Presley, and the last name of his favorite comedian, Lou Costello. The Presley part is correct, but “Costello” is not in honor of Lou Costello; it’s the maiden name of his paternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth Costello.
• Resides in New York City.
• The instrumentals for his debut album, “My Aim Is True” were provided by a band called, Clover. For the album sessions, they were without their lead singer, Huey Lewis.
• Through Diana Krall, Jamie Chisholm is related to Elvis Costello.
• Has twin sons, Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, born December 6, 2006, with wife Diana Krall.
• Is a big fan of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.
• He was voted the 30th Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
• Attended the special dinner at Sony Studios in Los Angeles to honor the singer and activist Sting as MusiCares 2004 Person of the Year. The evening celebrated Sting’s contribution to popular music and honored his charitable work with Amnesty International and the Rainforest Foundation. Other stars in attendance included Kylie Minogue, Elton John & Dido. (6th February 2004).
• May 2003 – announced engagement to Canadian jazz singer, Diana Krall.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Elvis Costello and the Attractions) on 10 March 2003.
• Fan of Liverpool Football Club.
• Lead singer and guitarist of Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
• Plays the guitar, harmonica and piano.
• Son of Ross MacManus
• In addition to recordings as “Elvis Costello” (often backed by The Attractions), has recorded music as “Declan MacManus”, “Napoleon Dynamite & The Royal Guard”, “The Coward Brothers” (with T Bone Burnett), “Nick Lowe & His Sound”, “The Emotional Toothpaste” and “The Imposter”.
• Legally changed name to Elvis Costello in 1977, then to Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus in 1986. Post-1986, he used both names for professional purposes, though he usually performed under the Costello moniker. “Aloysius” was not one of his original middle names.

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