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The career of Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus is the retribution of the talented outsider and | The career of Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus is the retribution of the talented outsider and record collector to the boys who had leased rock and roll and did not want to let him play. As the son of the singer and trumpeter Ross McManus, who appeared with the popular Joe Loss Orchestra in England the 50s and 60s, he was born on August 25, 1954 in London. As a child, Declan heard and studied the albums of his parents: [[Frank Sinatra]] and Wes Montgomery, [[Tony Bennett]] and Dean Martin, Hoagy Carmichael and Ella Fitzgerald, [[Hank Williams]] and Jim Reeves, jazz, vaudeville and pop-records. Then he discovered the Beatles and the American Soul Music; at 16 he wrote his first song. Maybe we would not know him now, if he had continued to play imitative folk songs with the band [[Flip City]] and [[Rusty]]. The only known work that exerted Declan was punching hole cards. | ||
In 1977, | In 1977, punk happened, the hitherto unsuccessful songwriter was on the spot. Jake Riviera took him for Stiff Records, he called himself Elvis Costello after his great-grandmother on the paternal side and after [[Elvis Presley]], and for lack of a band he recorded his debut album "[[My Aim Is True]]" with the American musicians of [[Clover]], who reappeared later as The News with [[Huey Lewis]]. Costello was no punk in education, musicality and taste, but gave himself brash and played a swift Rock'n'Roll, which was soon called "New Wave", but rather the pub rock of [[Brinsley Schwarz]], [[Nick Lowe]] and [[Dave Edmunds]] owed. "[[Watching The Detectives]]" sat Costello in the USA on the agenda, where he became a star in 1978, a long tour with the [[Attractions]], his new companion, undertook and insulted in a drunken stupor black musicians, although he loved their music. Such unleashed, he laid a year later "[[Armed Forces]]" before his "Abba album". 1980 saw "[[Get Happy!!]]", a breathless tribute to the Soul of Motown, Stax and Volt; "[[Almost Blue]]" was then a country pastiche, produced by Countrypolitan-inventor [[Billy Sherrill]]; "[[Imperial Bedroom]]" (1982) echoed the [[Beatles]] and was set up by their sound engineer [[Geoff Emerick]]. | ||
Of "guilt and revenge," he was driven, he said later, and early fame (and, you name it, the alcohol and the drugs) would have made him one of disgust. His marriage was broken in the Attractions, he presented himself as a despot, as well as not just sympathetic bassist [[Bruce Thomas]] executed later in a book. Looking for the perfect, by [[Alan Winstanley]] and [[Clive Langer]] produced pop of "[[Punch The Clock]]" and "[[Goodbye Cruel World]]" ( | Of "guilt and revenge," he was driven, he said later, and early fame (and, you name it, the alcohol and the drugs) would have made him one of disgust. His marriage was broken in the Attractions, he presented himself as a despot, as well as not just sympathetic bassist [[Bruce Thomas]] executed later in a book. Looking for the perfect, by [[Alan Winstanley]] and [[Clive Langer]] produced pop of "[[Punch The Clock]]" and "[[Goodbye Cruel World]]" (albums soon no longer liked Costello) appear in 1986 "[[King Of America]]", which was recorded in part with the musicians of [[Elvis Presley]], and the rugged songwriter album "[[Blood And Chocolate]]". He had reserved a place in the pantheon of rock music. Who wants to know how the 80s were the must hear only the albums of Elvis Costello wrote the film critic Michael Althen what only half the truth is, of course - but this eclectic, furious, eloquent songs established a unique tone of vitriol and injury, channeled anger and brutalized romance. | ||
Intoxicated by his own importance, he moved from Demon Records to Warner Bros., and took over two years in England, Ireland and the United States "[[Spike]]" on, he wrote two songs with Paul McCartney, two more appeared on McCartney's "[[Flowers In The Dirt]]". From wild | Intoxicated by his own importance, he moved from Demon Records to Warner Bros., and took over two years in England, Ireland and the United States "[[Spike]]" on, he wrote two songs with Paul McCartney, two more appeared on McCartney's "[[Flowers In The Dirt]]". From wild minstrel Costello had become a pretentious smart aleck, the ironic "The Beloved Entertainer" was called. In 1993 he took the [[Brodsky Quartet]] the romantic dance song "[[The Juliet Letters]]" and wrote with his second wife [[Cait O'Riordan]] songs for an album of [[Wendy James]] , then he returned with "[[Brutal Youth]]" (1994) once again to the sound of the reformed Attractions (and to London) back. After "[[All This Useless Beauty]]" (1996) co-operation with the Attractions ended as well as with Warner. His reputation and his negotiating skills brought Costello a supposedly amazing doped contract with Universal, on their various labels, he could publish his iridescent albums. 1998 published songs he wrote with [[Burt Bacharach]], to "[[Painted From Memory]]"; In 2001 he produced the album "[[For The Stars]]" for the Swedish soprano [[Anne Sofie von Otter | Anne-Sofie von Otter]], where he established songs (pieces of Brian Wilson, [[Tom Waits]] and Andersson / Ulvaeus addition, of course, his own compositions) had selected. | ||
In 2003, the crooner Costello album "[[North]]" with love songs out: After the end of his marriage to Cait O'Riordan he had fallen in love with [[Diana Krall]], | In 2003, the crooner Costello album "[[North]]" with love songs came out: After the end of his marriage to Cait O'Riordan he had fallen in love with [[Diana Krall]], to whom he is now married; they live with their children in Vancouver. A year later appeared "[[The Delivery Man]]", inspired by the American South drive, and the orchestral ballet music "[[Il Sogno]]". The early albums (including the Warner-years) increased Costello diverse, with additional songs and extensive essays on again - the archivist and encyclopedist of course everything collected and preserved in the memory. In New Orleans he worked - after the devastating hurricane - with [[Allen Toussaint]] to record "[[The River In Reverse]]" (2006), for which the pair wrote a few songs. Dissatisfied with the reception and the sales of his works, Costello released the noisy "[[Momofuku]]" in 2008, first on vinyl (but then on CD). | ||
Cameo appearances in films and television series, including a Talk and music show in the United States and his version of Charles Aznavour "[[She]]" for the movie "Notting Hill" (1999) brought Elvis Costello constant presence. Always on the go, he undertook a major tour in 2011 with the "Spinning Wheel", where the audience can turn a wheel of fortune and so could determine the songs - however, the participants were then exhibited in a dance cage. In addition to concerts with the Imposters (the Attractions musician [[Steve Nieve]] and [[Pete Thomas]] and bass player [[Davey Faragher]]) occurs Costello on alone - on such evenings he undergoes his work a radical, breath acquiring revision. After the last album "[[Wise Up Ghost]]" with | Cameo appearances in films and television series, including a Talk and music show in the United States and his version of Charles Aznavour "[[She]]" for the movie "Notting Hill" (1999) brought Elvis Costello constant presence. Always on the go, he undertook a major tour in 2011 with the "Spinning Wheel", where the audience can turn a wheel of fortune and so could determine the songs - however, the participants were then exhibited in a dance cage. In addition to concerts with [[the Imposters]] (the Attractions musician [[Steve Nieve]] and [[Pete Thomas]] and bass player [[Davey Faragher]]) occurs Costello on alone - on such evenings he undergoes his work a radical, breath acquiring revision. After the last album "[[Wise Up Ghost]]" with had taken [[The Roots| Roots]] (and some reworking old pieces), now is a project with [[T Bone Burnett]] and [[Marcus Mumford]] before: As the New Basement Tapes have processed Lyrics [[Bob Dylan]] from the time [[the Band]] to songs. Elvis Costello's late work you have probably imagined as erratic. | ||
For a bespectacled outsider from Paddington, the cheeky sings his songs with nasal, voice breaking, Declan MacManus came damn far. Today he is 60 years old. Could not call it unexpected. | For a bespectacled outsider from Paddington, the cheeky sings his songs with nasal, voice breaking, Declan MacManus came damn far. Today he is 60 years old. Could not call it unexpected. |
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