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 common music world by storm. In his memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink he reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is right, This Year’s Model, or Armed Forces, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, and King of America and tells the detailed stories,experiences, and emotions behind such beloved songs as “Alison, and ” “Watching the Detectives,” and “Radio Radio.”
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