Elvis Costello: Perbedaan antara revisi

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== Biografi ==

=== Masa kecil dan karier ===

 

 

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Following a whirlwind tour with other Stiff artists (captured on the ''Live Stiffs'' album, notable for Costello's recording of the [[Burt Bacharach]]/[[Hal David]] standard "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself") the band recorded the frenetic, raucous ''[[This Year's Model]]'' (1978). Some of the more popular tracks include the British hit "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea" and "Lipstick Vogue". A tour of the US and Canada also saw the release of the much bootlegged promo-only "Live At The El Mocambo," which finally saw an official release as part of the "2 1/2 Years" box set in 1993. It was during the ensuing United States tour that Elvis met and developed a relationship with former Playboy model [[Bebe Buell]]. Their on-again-off-again courtship would last until 1984 and would allegedly become a deep well of inspiration for some of Costello's most lovelorn songs.

 

 

His success in the US was severely bruised when, during a drunken argument with [[Stephen Stills]] and [[Bonnie Bramlett]] in a [[Columbus, Ohio]] [[Holiday Inn]] hotel bar, Costello referred to [[James Brown (musician)|James Brown]] as a "jive-ass [[nigger (word)|nigger]]," then upped the ante by pronouncing [[Ray Charles]] a "blind, ignorant [[nigger (word)|nigger]]." Bramlett and friends had evidently been baiting Costello with derisive comments about British rock music in general and "sawed-off Limey"-type comments aimed at him in particular. A contrite Costello apologised at a [[New York City]] press conference a few days later, claiming that he had been drunk and had been attempting to be obnoxious in order to bring the conversation to a swift conclusion, not anticipating that Bramlett would bring his comments to the press. According to Costello, "it became necessary for me to outrage these people with about the most obnoxious and offensive remarks that I could muster." In his liner notes for the expanded version of ''[[Get Happy!!]],'' Costello writes that some time after the incident he had declined an offer to meet Charles out of guilt and embarrassment, though Charles himself had graciously forgiven Costello ("Drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper"). It is notable that Costello worked extensively in Britain's "[[Rock Against Racism]]" campaign both before and after this interlude. This incident specifically inspired his ''Get Happy!'' song [http://www.morethings.com/music/costello/misunderstood.html "Riot Act."]

''[[Get Happy!!]]'' would thus be the first, and - along with ''King Of America'' - possibly most successful, of Costello's many experiments with genres beyond those he is normally associated with (the single, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" was an old [[Sam and Dave]] song, though Costello increased the [[tempo]] considerably). The brevity of the songs (20 tracks in under 50 minutes) suited the band's new style (the Thomas' typically melodic rhythm section and Nieve's reasonable impersonation of [[Booker T Jones]]) as well as the frantic and stressful conditions under which it was written and recorded, crammed between live dates and fuelled by excessive drinking. Lyrically, the songs are full of Costello's signature [[wordplay]], to the point that he later felt he'd become something of a self-parody and toned it down on later releases. He has mockingly described himself in interviews as "rock and roll's Scrabble champion."

 

 

Following the commercial disappointment of ''Trust'', Costello took a break from songwriting and the band decamped to [[Nashville]] to record ''[[Almost Blue]]'', an album of [[country music]] [[cover song]]s written by the likes of [[Hank Williams]] ("Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do?)"), [[Merle Haggard]] ("Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and [[Gram Parsons]] ("How Much I Lied"). It was not a country-rock album (a la [[The Byrds]] or [[Eagles]]), which might have been more palatable to his established audience and to reviewers, but rather an undiluted country album. It received mixed reviews, some of which accused Costello of growing soft. Perhaps in anticipation of the inevitable accusations of apostasy, the first pressings of the record in the UK bore a sticker with the message:

:"WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners".

 

 

''[[Imperial Bedroom]]'' (1982) marked a much darker, almost [[baroque]] sound for Costello, due in large part to the production of [[Geoff Emerick]], famed for engineering several [[The Beatles|Beatles]] records. Featuring a superior set of songs - both musically and lyrically - it remains one of his most critically acclaimed records but again failed to produce any hit singles. Costello has said he disliked the marketing pitch for the album, weak ads consisting only of the phrase "Masterpiece?". ''Imperial Bedroom'' also featured Costello's song "Almost Blue"; jazz singer and trumpeter [[Chet Baker]] would later perform and record a beautifully morose version of this song.

1983 saw another sidetrack with the pop-soul of ''[[Punch the Clock]]'', featuring female backing vocals ([[Afrodiziak]]) and a four piece [[horn section]] ([[The TKO Horns]]), alongside The Attractions. Clive Langer (who co-produced with Alan Winstanley), provided Costello with a melody which eventually became "Shipbuilding," an oblique and articulate look at the political contradictions of the [[Falklands War]]: The controversial military build-up provided jobs for Britain's struggling shipyards. The song featured a striking solo by [[Chet Baker]]. (Prior to the release of Costello's own version, an affecting, emotive version of the song was a minor UK hit for former [[Soft Machine]] drummer and political activist [[Robert Wyatt]]). Equally political was "Pills And Soap" -- a UK hit for Costello himself under the pseudonym of "The Imposter" -- an attack on the changes in British society brought on by [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcherism]], released to coincide with the run-up to the [[United Kingdom general election, 1983|1983 UK general election]]. The electorate were seemingly not swayed.) ''Punch the Clock'' also generated an international hit in the single "Everyday I Write the Book," aided by a prophetic music video featuring lookalikes of the [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince]] and [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Princess of Wales]] undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home.

 

 

Costello's retirement, although short-lived, was accompanied by two compilations, ''Elvis Costello: The Man'' in the UK, Europe and Australia and ''The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions'' in the USA.

He also found time to co-compose and co-produce, with Richard Harvey, the title and incidental music for the acclaimed mini-series ''G.B.H.'' by [[Alan Bleasdale]]. This entirely instrumental, and largely orchestral soundtrack garnered a [[BAFTA]], for "Best Music for a TV Series" for the pair.

 

 

During the Spring of [[1996]], Costello played a series of intimate club dates, backed only by Nieve on the piano, in support of "All This Useless Beauty". An ensuing summer and fall tour with the Attractions would prove to be the final death knell for the band. With relations between Elvis and bassist Bruce Thomas at a breaking point, Costello announced that the current tour would be the Attractions' last. The quartet performed their final U.S. show in [[Seattle, WA]] on [[September 1, 1996]] before wrapping up their tour in Japan.

 

===2000 to present===

 

In 2002 he released a new album, ''[[When I Was Cruel]]'', and toured with a new band, the Imposters (the Attractions with a different bass player, [[Davey Faragher]], formerly of [[Cracker (band)|Cracker]]). Costello split with second wife Cait O'Riordan toward the end of the year.

In July 2004 Costello's first full-scale orchestral work, ''Il Sogno'', was performed in New York. The work, a ballet after [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', was commissioned by Italian dance troupe Aterballeto, and received critical acclaim from the classical music critics, while being scorned by the popular music press. Whilst composing it, Costello deliberately avoided listening to the previous interpretations by [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]] and [[Benjamin Britten|Britten]] in order to ensure his own originality. A range of musical moods and styles are used to represent the different elements of the cast - satirical pomp for the courtiers, [[jazz]] for the faeries, and for [[Nick Bottom|Bottom]] a deliberately intrusive "brass band" motif. It was released on CD in September by [[Deutsche Grammophon]].

 

 

In July 2005, a CD recording of a collaboration with [[Marian McPartland]] on her show [[Piano Jazz]] was released. It featured Costello singing six jazz standards and two of his own songs, accompanied by Marian McPartland on piano.

All Costello's studio albums up until 1996 (with the exception, as of this writing, of ''The Juliet Letters'') were reissued from 2001 to 2005 by [[Rhino Records]] (which constituted the second set of re-releases after Ryko (US) and Demon (UK) had done so from 1993 to 1995), under the guidance of Mr. Costello himself and featuring, in each case, a bonus disc of B-sides, outtakes, live tracks, alternate versions and/or demos of songs. The sound was remastered for each album and Costello wrote new liner notes about his thoughts on the music and anecdotes from the period when it was recorded.

 

 

The ''Get Happy'' bonus disc was also of note, with 30 additional tracks, bringing the total for the 2-disc set to 50 songs.

Elvis Costello has issued singles under several names, and with several different backing bands. The key for the ''Artist Credit'' below is as follows: '''Elvis Costello''' (EC); '''Elvis Costello & The Attactions''' (EC+ATT); '''Elvis Costello & The Attactions with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra''' (EC+ATT+RSO); '''The Imposter''' (IMP); '''The Costello Show''' (TCS); '''The MacManus Gang''' (TMG), '''The Coward Brothers''' (TCB); '''[[Jimmy Cliff]] & Elvis Costello & The Attactions''' (JC+EC+ATT); '''Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet''' (EC+BQ); '''Elvis Costello and [[Burt Bacharach]]''' (EC+BB); '''Elvis Costello & The Imposters''' (EC+IMP)

 

 

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| 1977

| "Less Than Zero"

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| 1977

| "Alison"

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| 1977

| "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes"

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| 1977

| "Watching The Detectives"

! #15

! #108

| 1978

| "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea"

! #16

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| 1978

| "Pump It Up"

! #24

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| 1978

| "Radio Radio"

! #29

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| 1979

| "Oliver's Army"

! #2

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| 1979

| "Accidents Will Happen"

! #28

! #101

| 1980

| "I Cant Stand Up For Falling Down"

! #4

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| 1980

| "High Fidelity"

! #30

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| 1980

| "New Amsterdam"

! #36

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| 1980

| "Clubland"

! #60

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| 1981

| "From A Whisper To A Scream"

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| 1981

| "Watch Your Step" (US release only)

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| 1981

| "A Good Year For The Roses"

! #6

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| 1981

| "Sweet Dreams"

! #42

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| 1982

| "I'm Your Toy"

! #51

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| 1982

| "You Little Fool"

! #52

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| 1982

| "Man Out Of Time"

! #58

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| 1982

| "From Head To Toe"

! #43

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| 1982

| "Party Party"

! #48

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| 1983

| "Pills and Soap"

! #16

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| 1983

| "Everyday I Write the Book"

! #28

! #36

| 1983

| "Let Them All Talk"

! #59

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| 1984

| "Peace In Our Time"

! #48

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| 1984

| "I Wanna Be Loved" / "Turning The Town Red"

! #25

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| 1984

| "The Only Flame In Town"

! #71

! #56

| 1985

| "Green Shirt"

! #68

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| 1985

| "The People's Limousine"

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| 1986

| "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

! #33

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| 1986

| "Seven Day Weekend"

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| 1986

| "Lovable" (US release only)

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| 1986

| "Tokyo Storm Warning"

! #73

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| 1986

| "I Want You"

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| 1987

| "Blue Chair"

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| 1987

| "A Town Called Big Nothing"

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| 1989

| "Veronica"

! #31

! #19

| 1989

| "Baby Plays Around"

! #65

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| 1989

| "...This Town..."

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| 1991

| "The Other Side of Summer"

! #43

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| 1991

| "So Like Candy"

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| 1993

| "Jacksons, Monk & Rowe"

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| 1994

| "Sulky Girl"

! #22

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| 1994

| "13 Steps Lead Down"

! #59

! #115

| 1994

| "You Tripped At Every Step"

! #83

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| 1994

| "London's Brilliant Parade"

! #48

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| 1996

| "It's Time"

! #58

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| 1996

| "Little Atoms"

! #95

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| 1996

| "The Other End Of The Telescope"

! #96

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| 1996

| "Distorted Angel"

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| 1996

| "All This Useless Beauty"

! #96

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| 1996

| "You Bowed Down" (US release only)

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| 1999

| "Toledo"

! #72

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| 1999

| "She"

! #19

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| 2002

| "Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution)"

! #58

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| 2002

| "45"

! #92

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| 2003

| "Smile" (Japanese release only)

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| 2004

| "Monkey To Man"

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==Filmography==

*1979 film debut as 'Earl Manchester' in ''[[Americathon]]''

*1984 as 'Henry Scully' in UK TV series ''[[Scully (TV series)|Scully]]''

 

==Select bibliography==

* ''Elvis Costello: A Singing Dictionary (ISBN 0-7692-1505-X) - Sheet music, chords, and lyrics for works 1977-1980.

 

* [http://www.elviscostello.com/ ElvisCostello.com]

*{{imdb name|id=0004845|name=Elvis Costello}}

* [http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/C/Costello,_Elvis/ MusicMoz entry]

 

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