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ELVIS COSTELLO Released ‘BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE’ Album Today 40 Years Ago

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15 September 2026

Singer-songwriter master ELVIS COSTELLO (aged 72 now) released his 11th LP,
entitled BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE on 15 September 1986, today 40 years ago.
It was the 9th recorded with The Attractions.

A departure from the roots rock of King of America, Blood & Chocolate musically and
lyrically recalls Costello‘s early works, particularly This Year’s Model (1978). Featuring a garage-sounding production, it is a straightforward rock and roll album with revenge
and guilt-driven lyrics and imagery drawn from nightmarish worlds.

The cover artwork is a painting by Costello
himself titled ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘.

The critics didn’t really like it.
And it wasn’t a commericial
succes either.

#84 in the US and #18 in the UK.

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BOB DYLAN’s Double Masterpiece ‘BLONDE ON BLONDE’ Is 60 Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

20 June 2026

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The now 85-year-old singer-songwriter genius BOB DYLAN released one
of his solid gold masterpieces, double LP BLONDE ON BLONDE, today
60 years ago, on 20 June 1966.

It was the final album of a trilogy, the eternal troubadour recorded in
1965/1966. The other two being the classic Bringing It All Back Home
and Highway 61 Revisited.

Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album‘s songs have been described as operating on a grand scale
musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called “a unique mixture of the visionary
and the colloquial“. It was one of the first double albums in rock music.

It peaked at #9 in the US and #3 in the UK.

Rolling Stone Magazine called Blonde on Blonde: “the most mysterious, majestic
and seductive of Bob Dylan albums, not to mention the greatest. It remains the pinnacle
of Dylan’s genius. It’s his most expansive music, with nothing that resembles a folk song,
just the rock & roll laments of a vanishing American, the doomed outsider who’s given
up on ever belonging anywhere.” .

Singles.

– JUST LIKE A WOMAN –
(Live)

– RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35 –
(Audio)

– I WANT YOU –
(Live)

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A compilation of pictures taken by Jerry Schatzberg (who also took the blurred photo for the front sleeve) were on the gatefold sleeve of the first vinyl pressing in 1966.