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David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Working Week: Absolute Beginners

Special Feature by Adam Sweeting, Brian Case, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986

AT LONG last, it's almost here. Poor old JULIEN TEMPLE has been working on his movie of Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners apparently since the ...

Elvis Costello: Holocaust In Microcosm

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 18 March 1978

"HEY ELVIIIIIS!!!" There's this blonde gumdrop down the front, see, shaking it down in that demure stoned way that hippie girls seem to favour, and ...

Elvis Costello: Eivis Costello and the Attractions: Pavilion, West Runton

Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 8 March 1980

Fly me I'm Elvis! ...

Elvis Costello: Armed Forces (Columbia)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1979

When Bob Dylan broke up with his wife, Sara, a few years ago, the world was treated to the introspective and bitter Blood on the ...

Elvis Costello, Damned, The, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, Rumour, The, Sean Tyla: Around the bend on Stiff Records

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 April 1977

WHAT KIND of record company would use as its motto the phrase "reversing into tomorrow"? Which record company would define its purpose, on its first ...

Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Get Happy!! (F-Beat)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 16 February 1980

ON AN otherwise typical day late last October, Elvis Costello strolled through the door of London’s Rock On record shop in Camden Town, the oldies ...

ABBA, Beatles, The, John Cale, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, George Harrison, Libertines, The, Megadeth, Oasis, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen: Writing To Reach You

Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012

Because sometimes the only way musicians can actually talk to each other is by writing songs ...

Elvis Costello: Elvis Army Is Here To Stay

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 27 January 1979

CHAPERONED in the back of a hire car, taking in the sights, partaking in entertaining chit-chat about the industry with fellow passengers, I shouldn't feel ...

Elvis Costello: Can I Be Frank…?

Essay by Mark Sinker, The Wire, September 1992

2005 note: The original manuscript began and ended with some kind of lyrical gibberish swansong for the song as a music-form (in the age of ...

Elvis Costello: What'd I Say?

Report by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 17 May 1979

Elvis Costello puts his foot in his mouth ...

Elvis Costello, Roots, The: Elvis Costello and Questlove

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, MOJO, September 2013

Forged in the unlikely surroundings of an American late-night TV show, the transatlantic union between Elvis Costello and The Roots' drummer and co-frontman Questlove has ...

Elvis Costello: The Face Interview: Elvis Costello

Interview by Paul Rambali, The Face, August 1983

ALMOST seven years ago now, the son of dance band singer Ross McManus invented somebody called Elvis Costello. It was possible to do that in ...