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Певец и композитор Элвис Костелло (настоящее имя Диклэн Макманус) родился 25 августа 1954 года в Великобритании.Элвис Костелло начал свою музыкальную карьеру в группе Flip City, которая выступала в лондонских пивных, - в тот период (середина семидесятых) он взял псевдоним Элвис Костелло и заинтересовался фолк-роком. Долгое время ему не удавалось получить контракт на запись: представителей крупных фирм грамзаписи шокировали весьма вольные тексты Костелло, однако «независимая» Stiff Records, на которой записывались The Damned и группа Иэна Дьюри, обратила внимание на перспективного исполнителя. Stiff Records предоставила Костелло известного продюсера Ника Лоуи, выступавшего в составе группы-кумира Элвиса Brinsley Schwartz. Один из основателей Stiff Records Джейк Ривьера принял участие в судьбе начинающего исполнителя, сыграв роль своего рода полковника Паркера при «маленьком» Элвисе.Дебютировав в 1977 году с синглом «Less Than Zero», Элвис Костелло «обозначил» свой имидж «рассерженного молодого человека в очках» и создал прецедент, открыв путь таким некоммерческим исполнителям как Джо Джексон. На первом альбоме - «My Aim Is True» Костелло аккомпанировала американская группа Clover, взявшая для этой цели коллективный псевдоним The Shamrocks. Сингл «Red Shoes» стал в Великобритании хитом, что помогло дебютной пластинке прорваться в национальный Тор 20, а великолепную балладу «Alison» чуть позже сделала интернациональным хитом Линда Ронстадт - вещь исполнялась без разрешения автора, Костелло подал на Линду в суд, однако удовольствовался солидным процентом из гонорара певицы. На альбоме также была композиция «Watching The Detectives», которая «прозвучала» в исполнении группы Грэма Паркера The Rumour, -явная рэггей окраска композиции настолько понравилась музыкантам The Clash, что аналогичный подход к аранжировкам был использован при записи альбомов этой группы.Организовав постоянную группу The Attractions (Брюс Томас, Пит Томас и Стив Нив), Костелло в 1978 году выпустил альбом «This Year's Model» - пластинка очаровала как критиков, так и слушателей и вошла в британский Тор 5, а целая плеяда мелодичных композиций (в частности, «I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea») подтвердила композиторский дар Костелло.Выпущенный в 1979 году альбом «Armed Forces» открыл Элвису путь на рынок «попсы» - композиция «Oliver's Army» достигла в британском хит-параде второго места, а сам альбом первый - и последний - раз вошел в американский Тор 10. В следующей пластинке «Get Happy!» Элвис Костелло сделал попытку поэкспериментировать с соул, в частности, ему удалась необычная аранжировка песни Сэма и Дэйва «I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down» (4-е место в Великобритании) - диск вошел в британский Top 3 (в США -11-е место), ознаменовав пик коммерческого успеха Элвиса Костелло.В 1980 году исполнитель выбросил на рынок альбом классической поп-музыки «Trust», который публика не восприняла, - Костелло сделал новую попытку, на этот раз диск в стиле кантри, который записывался в Нэшвилле под руководством опытнейшего продюсера Билли Шерилла и с участием знаменитого гитариста Джона Макфи. Эта работа имела успех - диск вошел в британский Тор 10, а сингл «Good Year For The Roses» долгое время был любимцем европейских музыкальных радиостанций.Очередное обращение к поп-материалу-альбом 1982 года «Imperial Bedroom» - также успеха не имело, однако следующий диск, «Punch The Clock», который продюсировали Ланджер-Уинстенли, известные по работе с Madness, вошел в национальный Тор 3 (в США - 24-е место), а сингл «Everyday I Write The Book» попал в британский Top 30 (в США - в Top 40). Костелло дважды переиздавал этот сингл, всякий раз меняя композицию со стороны В, и всякий раз его ухищрения имели положительный результат.При записи альбома 1984 года «Goodbye Cruel World» Костелло воспользовался формулой предыдущей пластинки, однако на этот раз она не сработала - пластинка, по сути дела, получилась «провальной». В 1985 году сборник «лучших вещей» пробился в английский Тор 10, после чего был записан первый альбом - не считая дебютного, - на котором не играла группа The Attractions; в работе над пластинкой участвовали американские музыканты Джеймс Бертон и Глен Ди Хардин, работавшие как с Грэмом Парсонсом, так и с «другим» Элвисом. Вышедший спустя год диск «Blood And Chocolate» успеха не имел.The Attractions (они в 1980 году записали альбом без Костелло - «Mad About The Wrong Boy») распались, Брюс Томас в 1990 году издал полубиографический роман «The Big Wheel», в котором попытался объяснить природу феномена Костелло. Нив записал два сольных альбома (инструментальные), и в настоящее время руководит группой музыкантов, обеспечивающих сопровождение к популярной телепрограмме Джонатана Росса.Элвис Костелло продюсировал The Pogues (на бас-гитаристке этой группы Кейт 0'Риордан он впоследствии женился) и практически пребывал в тени до тех пор, пока не вышел альбом 1989 года «Spike», написанный в соавторстве с Полом Маккартни (часть их совместного материала появилась на пластинке Маккартни «Flowers In The Dirt») - диск с ходу оказался в английском Тор 10, а композиция «Veronica» стала хит-синглом.Нет такого музыкального стиля, к которому не обращался бы Элвис Костелло, - он даже экспериментировал с классикой; в настоящее время он является владельцем собственной фирмы звукозаписи, где записываются начинающие музыканты. Своей эклектичной манерой Костелло оказал огромное влияние на множество известных групп (в частности, своим духовным наставником его считают Prefab Sprout), его композиции исполняют Дасти Спрингфилд, Дэйв Эдмундc, Роберт Уайатт и многие другие титулованные музыканты. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus on 25 August 1954) is an internationally known English singer-songwriter. Gaining prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-70s, he burst into fame with his critically acclaimed 1977 debut 'My Aim Is True', still one of the most successful debuts of all time. He soon did much work in the genres of punk rock, power pop, and New Wave after he formed Elvis Costello & The Attractions. In a long and successful career, Costello has released over thirty studio albums on his own and with the Attractions, the Imposters, and other collaborations, praised by many critics for his literate, witty songwriting.
Born in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington in London, Costello is the son of trumpeter, vocalist and band-leader Ronald (“Ross”) MacManus and record store manager Lillian Costello. His family had roots in Merseyside and he moved to Birkenhead at age 16, with his mother, when his parents separated. While he is better known as 'Elvis Costello', a stage name referring to the legendary Elvis Presley suggested by Stiff Records manager Jake Riviera, he has used many other aliases, including 'The Imposter' and 'Napoleon Dynamite'.
In the early 1970s Costello was a participant in London's pub rock scene with the group Flip City. Then in 1977 along with fellow Pub-Rockers Nick Lowe and Ian Dury he made his first releases on the independent label Stiff, tailoring his work towards the burgeoning punk, power pop, and new wave scenes. From 1980's Armed Forces onwards, however, other influences including soul, country, 1960s pop, and classical music began to re-emerge, and he soon became established as a unique and original voice. His output has been wildly diverse: one critic has written that "Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image".
His prolific and varied 30-year career has been marked by two constants: sharp songwriting and musical restlessness. The latter has seen him dabble in almost every musical form, from country to jazz to orchestral. This stems from the fact that, at heart, Costello is a fan. His desire to work with his musical heroes has attracted collaborators as diverse as Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Allen Toussaint, Aimee Mann, Bill Frisell, and Brian Eno.
But his most successful partners were his long-term band The Attractions. They comprised Steve Nieve (keyboards), Pete Thomas (drums) and Bruce Thomas (bass). Between 1978 and 1983, this outfit produced a peerless series of albums: This Year's Model; Armed Forces; Get Happy!!; Almost Blue; Trust; Imperial Bedroom and Punch the Clock.
These recordings drew on styles spanning soul, country and western and commercial pop. It was only with 1984's Goodbye Cruel World that Costello started to stumble. An album he concedes was one of his worst, it ushered in a period which produced interesting music but lacked the consistent quality of his halcyon days. Interestingly, although he enlisted the other Elvis's band for King of America in 1986, it was a reunion with The Attractions and former producer Nick Lowe that produced his best album of the late 1980s in the form of the scabrous Blood and Chocolate.
The following albums, Spike and Mighty Like a Rose were uncompromising and difficult solo works, as was the string quartet collaboration The Juliet Letters in 1993. It was only reconvening the Attractions for Brutal Youth the following year that gave his fans another glimpse of what first attracted them to him: punchy, angry pop songs, tightly played by an impeccably taut ensemble.
Since then, Costello has become a career dilettante, true to his inner musical quest, but never again returning to heights he scaled in the early 1980s. Maybe the best work of this latter period was 1998's Painted from Memory. This joint effort with Burt Bacharach matched restrained writing from Costello with stately Bacharach arrangements.
Subsequent career nadirs such as the tune-free North (2003), and instrumental orchestral works such as Il Sogno (2004) led many long-term admirers to conclude that Costello had retained his integrity at the expense of his real musical strengths. However, he has given occasional evidence of his former fire. The ballsy bar-room atmosphere of the collaborative The Delivery Man (2004), suggests that he is still capable of giving his fans what they want, in between his more esoteric experiments.
Elvis is married to jazz vocalist Diana Krall and they have twin sons.
*Upon the film's release, it was noted that the name "Napoleon Dynamite" had originally been used by musician Elvis Costello, most visibly on his 1986 album Blood and Chocolate, although he had used the pseudonym on a single B-side as early as 1982. Filmmaker Jared Hess claims that he was not aware of Costello's use of the name until two days before the end of shooting, when he was informed by a teenage extra. He later said, "Had I known that name was used by anybody else prior to shooting the whole film, it definitely would have been changed ... I listen to hip-hop, dude. It's a pretty embarrassing coincidence." Hess claims that "Napoleon Dynamite" was the name of a man he met around the year 2000 on the streets of Cicero, Illinois while doing missionary work for the Mormon Church.
Costello believes that Hess stole the name: "The guy just denies completely that I made the name up... but I invented it. Maybe somebody told him the name and he truly feels that he came about it by chance. But it's two words that you're never going to hear together." To date, Costello has taken no legal action against the film.
Elvis Costello and Elton John to Make a Television 'Spectacle'
Two of the most respected musicians in the world will collaborate on an extraordinary new television series.
"Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." is hosted by its namesake and produced in conjunction with Sir Elton John's Rocket Pictures. Elton John will be one of the program's Executive Producers.
The series begain airing in 2008 on CTV in Canada, Channel 4 in the UK and Sundance Channel in the US. FremantleMedia Enterprises, will handle sales of the show to the rest of the world.
Conceived to provide a forum for in-depth discussion and performance with the most interesting and influential artists and personalities of our time, the show fuses the best of talk and music television.
"Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." is an unpredictable and unprecedented television experience. The series of 13 one-hour programs features everything from intimate one-on-ones with legendary performers and notable newcomers to thematic panel discussions, with a variety of performance elements including unique collaborations, acoustic and impromptu "illustrative" demonstrations of the creative process, and some original interpretations of others' songs by Costello. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Born in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington in London, Costello is the son of trumpeter, vocalist and band-leader Ronald (“Ross”) MacManus and record store manager Lillian Costello. His family had roots in Merseyside and he moved to Birkenhead at age 16, with his mother, when his parents separated. While he is better known as 'Elvis Costello', a stage name referring to the legendary Elvis Presley suggested by Stiff Records manager Jake Riviera, he has used many other aliases, including 'The Imposter' and 'Napoleon Dynamite'.
In the early 1970s Costello was a participant in London's pub rock scene with the group Flip City. Then in 1977 along with fellow Pub-Rockers Nick Lowe and Ian Dury he made his first releases on the independent label Stiff, tailoring his work towards the burgeoning punk, power pop, and new wave scenes. From 1980's Armed Forces onwards, however, other influences including soul, country, 1960s pop, and classical music began to re-emerge, and he soon became established as a unique and original voice. His output has been wildly diverse: one critic has written that "Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image".
His prolific and varied 30-year career has been marked by two constants: sharp songwriting and musical restlessness. The latter has seen him dabble in almost every musical form, from country to jazz to orchestral. This stems from the fact that, at heart, Costello is a fan. His desire to work with his musical heroes has attracted collaborators as diverse as Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Allen Toussaint, Aimee Mann, Bill Frisell, and Brian Eno.
But his most successful partners were his long-term band The Attractions. They comprised Steve Nieve (keyboards), Pete Thomas (drums) and Bruce Thomas (bass). Between 1978 and 1983, this outfit produced a peerless series of albums: This Year's Model; Armed Forces; Get Happy!!; Almost Blue; Trust; Imperial Bedroom and Punch the Clock.
These recordings drew on styles spanning soul, country and western and commercial pop. It was only with 1984's Goodbye Cruel World that Costello started to stumble. An album he concedes was one of his worst, it ushered in a period which produced interesting music but lacked the consistent quality of his halcyon days. Interestingly, although he enlisted the other Elvis's band for King of America in 1986, it was a reunion with The Attractions and former producer Nick Lowe that produced his best album of the late 1980s in the form of the scabrous Blood and Chocolate.
The following albums, Spike and Mighty Like a Rose were uncompromising and difficult solo works, as was the string quartet collaboration The Juliet Letters in 1993. It was only reconvening the Attractions for Brutal Youth the following year that gave his fans another glimpse of what first attracted them to him: punchy, angry pop songs, tightly played by an impeccably taut ensemble.
Since then, Costello has become a career dilettante, true to his inner musical quest, but never again returning to heights he scaled in the early 1980s. Maybe the best work of this latter period was 1998's Painted from Memory. This joint effort with Burt Bacharach matched restrained writing from Costello with stately Bacharach arrangements.
Subsequent career nadirs such as the tune-free North (2003), and instrumental orchestral works such as Il Sogno (2004) led many long-term admirers to conclude that Costello had retained his integrity at the expense of his real musical strengths. However, he has given occasional evidence of his former fire. The ballsy bar-room atmosphere of the collaborative The Delivery Man (2004), suggests that he is still capable of giving his fans what they want, in between his more esoteric experiments.
Elvis is married to jazz vocalist Diana Krall and they have twin sons.
*Upon the film's release, it was noted that the name "Napoleon Dynamite" had originally been used by musician Elvis Costello, most visibly on his 1986 album Blood and Chocolate, although he had used the pseudonym on a single B-side as early as 1982. Filmmaker Jared Hess claims that he was not aware of Costello's use of the name until two days before the end of shooting, when he was informed by a teenage extra. He later said, "Had I known that name was used by anybody else prior to shooting the whole film, it definitely would have been changed ... I listen to hip-hop, dude. It's a pretty embarrassing coincidence." Hess claims that "Napoleon Dynamite" was the name of a man he met around the year 2000 on the streets of Cicero, Illinois while doing missionary work for the Mormon Church.
Costello believes that Hess stole the name: "The guy just denies completely that I made the name up... but I invented it. Maybe somebody told him the name and he truly feels that he came about it by chance. But it's two words that you're never going to hear together." To date, Costello has taken no legal action against the film.
Elvis Costello and Elton John to Make a Television 'Spectacle'
Two of the most respected musicians in the world will collaborate on an extraordinary new television series.
"Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." is hosted by its namesake and produced in conjunction with Sir Elton John's Rocket Pictures. Elton John will be one of the program's Executive Producers.
The series begain airing in 2008 on CTV in Canada, Channel 4 in the UK and Sundance Channel in the US. FremantleMedia Enterprises, will handle sales of the show to the rest of the world.
Conceived to provide a forum for in-depth discussion and performance with the most interesting and influential artists and personalities of our time, the show fuses the best of talk and music television.
"Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." is an unpredictable and unprecedented television experience. The series of 13 one-hour programs features everything from intimate one-on-ones with legendary performers and notable newcomers to thematic panel discussions, with a variety of performance elements including unique collaborations, acoustic and impromptu "illustrative" demonstrations of the creative process, and some original interpretations of others' songs by Costello. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.