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Drafting content for the updated bio here

... where to begin?

Elvis Costello may have been an unlikely pop star when he burst of the scene in 1977, but when he was born Declan MacManus two decades earlier, the only child of a big-band singer and a record-store manager, there could be little doubt that he was destine for a career in music.

^ this wording isn't great, but that's the idea I want to lead with

Bio endnotes

Good References

Early months/"firsts"

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Melody_Maker,_March_26,_1977 (first single review)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sounds,_March_26,_1977 (first single review -- tie with MM)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Stockholm_Aftonbladet,_April_26,_1977 (early interview/profile)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sounds,_April_30,_1977 (early interview/profile)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Trouser_Press,_June_1977 (first US press; review of LTZ)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Melody_Maker,_June_4,_1977 (first gig review)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Melody_Maker,_June_25,_1977 (first interview)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sounds,_July_16,_1977 (review of MAIT)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/New_Musical_Express,_July_23,_1977 (review of MAIT)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Record_Mirror,_July_23,_1977 (early interview; first review of gig w/ Attractions)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/New_Musical_Express,_July_30,_1977 (first Nick Kent article; review of Island publicity gig)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sounds,_August_6,_1977 (likely the interview EC recalls doing while suffering a nauseating case of vertigo)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/New_Musical_Express,_August_27,_1977 (much quoted an reprinted first Nick Kent interview)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Melody_Maker,_August_6,_1977 (About Jake, Stiff, CBS publicity busking)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/London_Evening_News,_September_3,_1977 (early interview in mainstream press)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Hot_Press,_September_17,_1977 (EC already running away from the Nick Kent interview)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Village_Voice,_September_5,_1977 (half-sentence mention, first in US)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/London_Observer,_September_25,_1977 (by future EC documentarian Mark Kidel; compares Jake to Col. Tom Parker)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/International_Musician,_September_1977 (author claims to have been a fan of Flip City)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Oor,_October_5,_1977 (human-translated article from Dutch publication; long, interesting interview)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/New_Musical_Express,_October_29,_1977 (interview with Ross)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Trouser_Press,_November_1977 (review of MAIT)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Rolling_Stone,_November_3,_1977 (first mention in RS)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Jackie,_November_19,_1977 (short account of first contact with Stiff)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Trouser_Press,_December_1977 (fairly extensive interview from supposed no-interview period; probably done in late September 1977)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Rolling_Stone,_December_1,_1977 (review of MAIT by Greil Marcus)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Sounds,_December_10,_1977 (Whisky A Go Go review; Sylvie Simmons, interesting insights from outside the echo chamber)

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Time,_December_26,_1977 (TIME mag)

Comprehensive recent profiles

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/British_GQ,_October_2009 http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/New_Yorker,_November_8,_2010