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Elvis Costello
  • Birth Name:
    Declan Patrick MacManus
  • Date of Birth:
    August 25, 1954
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Virgo
  • Place of Birth:
    Paddington, London, England, UK
  • Height:
    5' 10"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Grey
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    British
  • Religion:
    Christianity
  • Address:
    New York City

Family

Elvis Costello
  • Father:
    Ross MacManus
  • Spouse:
    Diana Krall - Present
    Cait O'Riordan - Divorced
    Mary Burgoyne - Divorced
  • Son:
    Dexter Henry Lorcan, Frank Harlan James

Career

Elvis Costello

Awards

Elvis Costello

1992 : BAFTA TV Award, Best Original Television Music for - G.B.H.

 

Trivia

Elvis Costello
  • 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.
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  • Through Diana Krall, Jamie Chisholm is related to Elvis Costello.
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  • Elvis is a big fan of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.
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  • He was voted the 30th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
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  • 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).
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Quotes

Elvis Costello
  • It was difficult to develop an original style. I have no idea who it was I might have been imitating, whether consciously or unconsciously. - Unknown
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  • 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 son - Unknown
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  • 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. - Unknown
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  • 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. - Unknown
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  • 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 a - Unknown
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Biography

Elvis Costello
Last Updated: Monday, August 10, 2009

elvis costelloElvis Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus in London, England and raised in Liverpool. The son of British band leader Ross MacManus, Costello took his pseudonym from Elvis Presley and his mother's maiden name (Costello). He began performing professionally in 1969 and was a musician and/or singer in many bands around London before forming a moderately successful pub-rock band called "Flip City" in the mid-1970s. Working full time as a computer operator, he landed his first record deal with Stiff Records in 1977 and recorded his first album "My Aim Is True" while on vacation.

The album was a smash hit in England and landed Costello a worldwide distribution deal with Columbia records. Forming his backup group, "The Attractions", for his second album, Costello went on to record several popular and influential albums over the next decade. Today, he is regarded as one of the most influential and popular singer/songwriters in modern music. In 1998, he collaborated with legendary tune smith, Burt Bacharach, on a highly successful album of love songs "Painted From Memory".

Filmography

Elvis Costello


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