ELVIS COSTELLO – Debut Album ‘MY AIM IS TRUE’ Released 45 Years Ago Today

Back in time

22 July 2022

Artist: ELVIS COSTELLO
Album: MY AIM IS TRUE – debut LP
Producer: Nick Lowe

Released: 22 July 1977 – 45 years ago today
Label: Stiff Records
Score: #14 in the UK and #32 in the US

Pitchfork said: “ Elvis treats his bitterness like a fine wine, letting a complex bouquet
of anger, doubt, and pity shine through. Wordy, witty, and geeky as fuck, My Aim Is True
is without question one of the finest statements of brilliant nerddom ever to be released
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Score: 9.5/10.

TUTV: The start of the King Of America’s supreme career. Hats off.

Key single: Alison

Full album…

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ELVIS COSTELLO Released His First-Class 7th Album ‘IMPERIAL BEDROOM’ 40 Years Ago Today

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Artist: ELVIS COSTELLO
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, 67 years ago
Active: Since 1970 / 32 LPs

Anniversary album: IMPERIAL BEDROOM
Released: 2 July 1982 – 40 years ago today today

Rolling Stone said: “Elvis Costello’s Imperial Bedroom is really a mansion, each of whose rooms is decorated with painstaking care and detail by the artist. In every aspect of this masterfully wrought, conceptually audacious project, he’s managed to bulwark his emotional directness with vision and clarity — and to make an album that lingers and haunts long after the last note has died out. Like a long, episodic novel — or a long, episodic relationship, you
can look back when it’s over and measure how far you’ve traveled.”
Score: 4/5.

TUTV: 5-star singer-songwriter. 1st class album.

Singles/clips: You Little Fool / Man Out Of Time

– YOU LITTLE FOOL –

– MAN OUT OF TIME –

Stream full album on Spotify

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ELVIS COSTELLO Collector’s Guide – 148 Pages

11 June 2022

“To the new wavers of ’77, Elvis Costello must have looked a straightforward proposition, a black and white world. Punk’s febrile, combative energies and the naïve excitement of golden age rock’n’roll and mod beat encapsulated in one bespectacled, legs-akimbo, skinny tied package. And so, for a short while, it would prove; as the arrival of The Attractions – and a pill-popping angry young man attitude – powered Costello on to the new wave front lines with This Year’s Model and Armed Forces, his aesthetic cohered around barbed and allusive dissections of pop culture, cutting social commentary and the politics of love and war. A critical darling, and not just because, as Dave Lee Roth bitterly attested, the sleeve of …Model was, for most journalists, like looking in a mirror.”

In the 148 pages of this Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide, fully updated to account for his most recent activity, you’ll read some of Costello’s most memorable interactions with just those journalists. Here you’ll find spiky moments – “Getting it all down are you?” – and expansive encounters. Not to mention a full reckoning of the many recordings, collaborations and other adventures which caused them to occur in the first place.

 

You can purchase a copy and let it send to your home. Info here.

Magazine This – ELVIS COSTELLO

14 April 2022

“In the 148 pages of this Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide, fully updated to account for his most recent activity, you’ll read some of Costello’s most memorable interactions with journalists.

Here you’ll find spiky moments – “Getting it all down are you?” – and expansive encounters.
Not to mention a full reckoning of the many recordings, collaborations, and other adventures which caused them to occur in the first place.” More info here.

You can buy your copy here and have it sent to your home.

Costello pumps it up for his UNCUT tribute…

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