Elvis Costello to write memoir, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
|
Version 0 of 1. Elvis Costello will publish his first autobiography this October. The memoir, entitled Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, will chart his four decades in music, and will offer the musician’s “unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best-known songs and the hits of tomorrow”, according to a statement. Written without the aid of a ghost writer, it follows a 60,000-word essay on his career that was included in the liner notes of the 2001 reissue of his 1977-1996 catalogue. Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink will reportedly contain anecdotes and observations about his many collaborators, and will describe how Costello’s career has lasted for almost four decades “through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom”. Born Declan MacManus on the outskirts of London, Costello was raised in a musical family: his father was a jazz musician and his grandfather was a trumpet player on the White Star Line ship during the mid-1920s and 30s. He played his first gig at a folk club near his home in Twickenham in 1969. He later adopted the name Elvis Costello, and recorded 11 albums with the Attractions and more than 20 under his own name. Costello has collaborated with musicians including Burt Bacharach, Bill Frisell and the composer Richard Harvey, and in 2013 he recorded an album with the Roots. He will embark on a UK tour in May and a US tour with Steely Dan this summer. Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink will be published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. |