Books
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Books by, about or related to Elvis Costello
Anthologies
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003 | Matt Groening (editor), Paul Bresnick (series editor) | 2003 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer | John Turnbull (editor) | 2008 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Biographies
Elvis Costello
Title | Author | Year | Links |
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink | Elvis Costello | 2015 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Trouweloze muziek en verdwijnende inkt - (in Dutch) | Elvis Costello - translated by Marike Groot, Sander Brink, Gies Aalbers, Edwin Krijgsman and Erik de Vries | 2015 | Amazon • Amazon.uk • Amazon.nl |
Musique infidèle et encre sympathique - (in French) | Elvis Costello - translated by Valéry Lameignère | 2017 | Amazon.uk • Amazon.fr |
Unfaithful Music - Mein Leben - (in German) | Elvis Costello - translated by Henning Dedekind, Henriette Heise & Hubert Mania | 2015 | Amazon.uk • Amazon.de |
Musica Infedele & Inchiostro Simpatico - (in Italian) | Elvis Costello - translated by T. Lo Potro | 2016 | Amazon.uk • Amazon.it |
エルヴィス・コステロ自伝 - (in Japanese) | Elvis Costello - translated by 夏目 大 (Dai Natsume) | 2020 | Amazon.co.jp |
Música Infiel y Tinta Invisible - (in Spanish) | Elvis Costello - translated by Damià Alou, Antonio Padilla & Pilar Rocío Gómez | 2016 | Amazon.uk • Amazon.es |
Skamlös Musik & Bleknande Bläck - (in Swedish) | Elvis Costello - translated by Daniel Gustafsson | 2016 | Norstedts.se |
Elvis Costello – (Kill Your Idols series) | John Aizlewood and David Sheppard (ed) | 2000 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello: A biography | Tony Clayton-Lea | 1999 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello (Icons of Pop Music) | Dai Griffiths | 2008 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello: A Man Out of Time (published in the USA as Elvis Costello: God's Comic) | David Gouldstone | 1989 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Let Them All Talk: The Music Of Elvis Costello | Brian Hinton | 1999 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello: A Bio-Bibliography - Bio-Bibliographies in Music series | James E. Perone | 1998 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello - A Completely False Biography Based On Rumor, Innuendo and Lies | Krista Reese | 1981 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello: An Illustrated Biography | Mick St. Michael | 1986 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello - The Early Years (ebook - as above with a new foreword by Michael Heatley) | Mick St. Michael | 2013 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello | Graeme Thompson | 2005 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello: el hombre que pudo reinar (in Spanish) | Xavier Valiño | 2016 | Amazon • Amazon.uk • info |
Related artists
Cruel to be Kind – The Life & Music of Nick Lowe | Will Birch | 2019 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
"Get Beethoven!" | Paul Cassidy | 2020 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Here Comes Everybody: The Story Of The Pogues | James Fearnley | 2013 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
The Big Wheel | Bruce Thomas | 1995 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
On The Road ... Again | Bruce Thomas | 2003 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Rough Notes - dancing about architecture | Bruce Thomas | 2015 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Other
Rebel Heart - An American Rock 'n' Roll Journey | Bebe Buell and Victor Bockris | 2002 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Criticism
Title | Author | Year | Links |
Elvis Costello (in Italian) | Eleonora Bagarotti | 2006 | Amazon.uk |
Pump It Up: Elvis Costello's 100 Best Songs (e-book) | Jim Beviglia | 2013 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces 33⅓ | Franklin Bruno | 2005 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Is King: Costello’s My Aim Is True (Pop classics) | Richard Crouse | 2015 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello - (in Spanish) | Eduardo Margaretto | 1993 | Amazon • Amazon.es |
The Words and Music of Elvis Costello | James E. Perone | 2015 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell and the Torch Song Tradition | Larry David Smith | 2004 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Discographies
Title | Author | Year | Links |
Elvis Costello: The Illustrated Disco-Biography | Geoff Parkyn | 1984 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Forewords - books with forewords by Elvis Costello
Title | Author | Year | Links |
Here, There And Everywhere | Geoff Emerick | 2007 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Such Sweet Thunder - Benny Green On Jazz | Benny Green | 2002 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
I Scare Myself | Dan Hicks | 2017 | Amazon • Amazon.uk • DanHicks.net |
Every Night Is Saturday Night | Wanda Jackson | 2017 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Honky Tonk Girl: My life in lyrics | Loretta Lynn | 2012 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Gigographies
Title | Author | Year | Links |
Elvis Costello: So Far | Richard Groothuizen | 1983 | books.google.co.uk |
Going Through The Motions | Richard Groothuizen and Kees den Heyer | 1987 | books.google.co.uk |
Lyric books
Title | Author | Year | Links |
A Singing Dictionary | Elvis Costello | 1980 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Everyday I Write The Song - (Grumbling Appendix To The Singing Dictionary) | Elvis Costello | 1983 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello: A Collection Of Works Moods For Moderns (in Japanese) | Marie Ueda & Erika Yamashita (translators) | 1998 | Amazon • Amazon.jp |
Elvis Costello: Testi con traduzione (in Italian) | Introduction by P Bertrando | 1989 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Miscellaneous
Title | Author | Year | Links |
No Sleep Till Canvey Island – The Great Pub Rock Revolution | Will Birch | 2016 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
No Surrender - a deadpan farce (film script) | Alan Bleasdale | 1986 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Nefarious | Glen Colson | 2020 | Glencolson.com |
Pointed Portraits | Chalkie Davies | 1981 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
The Peel Sessions | Ken Garner | 2007 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Life And Works Of Barney Bubbles | Paul Gorman | 2009 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
The Dark Stuff - Selected writings on Rock Music 1972 - 1993 | Nick Kent | 1994 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
No Action - tolv månader av punk, new wave och extas på Dad´s Dancehall i Malmö (in Swedish) | Sven Lindström, Petter Lönegård and Kjell Magnusson |
2019 | Hepcat.se • Premiumpublishing.com |
Olympen - artisterna, publiken, betongen (in Swedish) | Sven Lindström | 2014 | Amazon.uk • issuu.com • Premiumpublishing.com |
Off-beat: Pub Rock For The '80's | Gina Morris | 1985 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Elvis Costello and Thatcherism: A Psycho-Social Exploration | David Pilgrim and Richard Ormrod | 2013 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Record labels
Title | Author | Year | Links |
Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story | Richard Balls | 2014 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
The Rhino Records Story | Harold Bronson | 2013 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Stiff Records 1976-79: A Comprehensive Guide To Collecting The Label | David Cooper | 2012 | 45worlds.com |
2 Tone - Before, During & After | Lee Morris | 2020 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Stiff: The Story Of A Record Label 1976-1982 | Bert Muirhead | 1983 | Amazon • Amazon.uk |
Notes
- In addition to the above, the music and lyrics of Elvis Costello are published as sheet music through the usual suppliers including -
- The Global Game: Writers on Soccer - includes Elvis' account of playing a concert at UEA, Norwich, England whilst Liverpool FC were playing in the European Champions' League Final.
- Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003 includes an article that Elvis wrote for Vanity Fair magazine.