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Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus, better known by his [[Stage Names|stage name]] "Elvis Costello", has been a sometimes popular and always respectable musician and songwriter since the late [[The Seventies|seventies]]. He honed his skills playing in the pub rock band Flip City at night while working as a computer operator at Revlon's London branch. Soon after that he signed a contract with fledgling record label Stiff and a new name--an ironic [[Shout
Costello was initially associated in the public mind with [[Punk Rock (Music)|Punk Rock]], and in terms of attitude there was a resemblance. (He had enjoyed seeing the [[Sex Pistols (Music)|Sex Pistols]] go head to head with morning TV host Bill Grundy.) Musically his closest kinship was to classic [[The Sixties|sixties]] pop: [[The Kinks (Music)|The Kinks]], [[Bob Dylan (Music)|Bob Dylan]], early [[The Who (Music)|Who]] and especially [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]]. While he had a [[Creative Differences|troubled relationship]] with his backup band the Attractions, they were fully able to keep up with his musical vision.
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* [[Album Title Drop]] - ''My Aim Is True'' (from a line in "Alison"), ''Punch the Clock'' (from "The Greatest Thing"), ''King of America'' (from "Brilliant Mistake"), ''Blood and Chocolate'' (from "Uncomplicated"), and ''Brutal Youth'' (from "Favourite Hour"). And played with on ''This Year's Model'' (a line in "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea" refers to "''last'' year's model", and another song on the album is titled "This Year's Girl").
* [[Answer Song]] - Costello has said that "This Year's Girl" is more or less an answer song to the song "Stupid Girl" by [[The Rolling Stones]].
* [[Anti
* [[Artifact Title]] - The albums ''Almost Blue'' and ''Imperial Bedroom'' were each titled after one of their intended tracks. Costello then dropped the songs in question from their respective albums, but left the album titles unchanged.
* [[The Band Minus the Face]] - The Attractions released ''Mad About the Wrong Boy'', a "solo" album without Costello, in 1980. Costello later covered one of its songs, "Sad About Girls".
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* [[Protest Song]]: "Shipbuilding," an anti-Falklands War song.
* [[Record Producer]] - As well as the producing credits on his own albums, Costello has also produced albums for The Specials, The Pogues and Squeeze.
* [[Self
* [[Stoic Spectacles]]
* [[Stop and Go]] - "God's Comic".
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