Zum 70. Geburtstag des fabelhaften Elvis Costello – Rolling Stone

The career of Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus is the recompense of the American and plattensammlers and the Burschen, the Rock’n’Roll leased and in no woolly world. As the son of the singers and trumpeters Ross McManus, with the in the 50er- and 60er-Jahren in England, believed Joe Loss Orchestra on August 25, 1954 in London born. As a child and student Declan the Alben-seiner Eltern: Frank Sinatra and Wes Montgomery, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin, Hoagy Carmichael and Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Williams and Jim Reeves, Jazz-, Vaudeville- and Schlager-Platten. Then the Beatles and the American Soul-Music; with 16 wrote the first songs. We don’t want to know what else we know of Folk-Songs with the Bands Flip City and Rusty spelielt hatte. The only thing that is possible is that the decision is made, war with Stanzen van Lochkarten.

In 1977, Punk was released, until then the successful songwriters went to the station. Jake Riviera ended up at Stiff Records, after he had made his debut as Costello and Elvis after Elvis Presley, and the band that released his debut album ‘My Aim Is True’ with the American music of Clover on, who later reüssered as The News with Huey Lewis. Costello was into Education, Music and Taste are punk, go as schnodderig and play a fast Rock’n’Roll, the bare “New Wave” is becoming more and more popular, as the Pub-Rock of Brinsley Schwarz, Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds thanks.

“Watching The Detectives” Costello put on the Agenda in the US, in 1978 with the Star Wurde, a long tour with the Attractions, a new Begleitband, another and in the black music policy, where the music is probably. The story began that there was a year ago “Armed Forces”, with “Abba-Album”. 1980 perhaps “Get Happy!!”, a tribute to the Soul of Motown, Stax and Volt; “Almost Blue” war in a Country-Pastiche, produced by Countrypolitan-Erfinder Billy Sherrill; “Imperial Bedroom” (1982) was conceived by the Beatles and the artist of the sound engineer Geoff Emerick.

Van “Schuld und Rache” is het get gewesen, het is später, en der frühe Ruhm (en, you name itof alcohol and drugs) can be heated in no time. Seine The war is gone, while Attractions are considered Despot, while the sympathetic bassist Bruce Thomas does not burst into a book. After the perfection, by Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer produced Pop of “Punch The Clock” and “Goodbye Cruel World” (records, which Costello bald did not come anymore) appeared in 1986 “King Of America”, that is to part with the musicians of Elvis Presley has released the album ‘Blood And Chocolate’ and the scrappy Songwriter album ‘Blood And Chocolate’.

Damit hatte has reserved a place in the Pantheon of Rock Music. We would know who the 80s were, the muse now that the Platten von Elvis Costello heard, writer of the Film Critic Michael Althen, was free now that half Wahrheit ist – aber these eklektischen, furiosen, eloquents Songs etablierten een inzigartigen Ton aus Vitriol and Verletzung, channeling Wut and vertierte Romantik.

From the own pilgrimage, wechselte is from Demon Records at Warner Bros. and then in the run of two years in England, Ireland and the US “Spike” on, two songs were written with Paul McCartney, two more on McCartney’s “Flowers In The Dirt”. Through a wild war of wanderings Costello became a talkative Schlauberger, the ironic “The Beloved Entertainer” anointed. In 1993 he took on the romantic song “The Juliet Letters” with the Brodsky Quartet and wrote with his second wife Cait O’Riordan the songs for an album by Wendy James, then it was a matter of “Brutal Youth” (1994) once again to the raucous sound of the Attractions (and to London). After “All This Useless Beauty” (1996) the operation with the attraction ended with Warner.

Your name and your conduct bring costs when it comes to offers with universal, different labels are changeable if you want to be able to change. 1998 Erschienen Songs, which was written with Burt Bacharach, on “Painted From Memory”; In 2001 the album “For The Stars” was produced for the Swedish soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter, for the song (Pieces by Brian Wilson, Tom Waits and Andersson/Ulvaeus, of course, own compositions).

In 2003 Costello released the Crooner Album “North” with Liebesliedern heraus: Nach dem Ende seiner Ehe with Cait O’Riordan hatte erliebt sich in Diana Krall, met der his heute verheiratet ist; they live with their children in Vancouver. A few years ago, “The Delivery Man”, an American South American inspired Platte, and the orchestral ballet music “Il Sogno” were released. That of Alben (on the Warner-Jahre) Costello probably explains, with sister Songs and umfangreichen Essays wieder auf – der Archivar and Enzyklopädist that of course everything gesammelt and face in the Erinnerung. In the New Orleans work – after the verheerenden Hurrikan – with Allen Toussaint and “The River In Reverse” (2006), they both write a few songs. Unburdened by the response and the successful production of works, the cost of the first “Momofuku” 2008 is available on Vinyl (always on CD).

Elvis Costello’s Spätwerk hat man himself looks like irregular pieces

Cameo recordings in movies and TV series, a talk and music show in the USA and the version of Charles Aznavour’s “She” for the movie “Notting Hill” (1999) brought Elvis Costello top prizes. A large part of the year 2011 is a big tournament with the “Spinning Wheel”, while the audience is a ​​​​one lucky wheel and so the best songs can be dared – everything that has to be told is then in one of the Tanzkäfig-ausgestellt.

Neben concerts with the Imposters (the Attractions musician Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas are bassist Davey Faragher) tritt Costello on everything – a Solchen Abenden sees his work as a radical, to make remedur. After we have proposed the Platte “Wise Up Ghost” with the Roots (and a few other ideas), a project with T Bone Burnett and Marcus Mumford is ahead: Als The New Basement Tapes de songtekst van Bob Dylan in de tijd met The Band zu lieder verarbeitet. Elvis Costellos Spätwerk hat man sich schiffeinlich als irregulare presen.

When one of Paddington’s listeners, with his nose, sings the breaking voice before his songs, Declan MacManus has damn well come far. You can’t call it unexpected.