Complicated Shadows: The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello
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This definitive biography of a songwriting legend follows on from Elvis Costello's successful 2004 tour of Australia and is just in time for his album release of February 2006. Complicated Shadows is a music biography set to please everyone except its subject!The book draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with Costello's schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, and journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages of his life and career.Complicated Shadows unearths many previously unknown details about Costello's early years and his personal life, as well as examining his entire musical output. The book also includes previously unpublished lyrics from his earliest songs.An enormously readable and meticulously researched biography of one of the giants of contemporary music.
Author: Graeme Thomson
Format: Paperback, 480 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 318 g
Published: 2005, Canongate Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: The Arts
Description
This definitive biography of a songwriting legend follows on from Elvis Costello's successful 2004 tour of Australia and is just in time for his album release of February 2006. Complicated Shadows is a music biography set to please everyone except its subject!The book draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with Costello's schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, and journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages of his life and career.Complicated Shadows unearths many previously unknown details about Costello's early years and his personal life, as well as examining his entire musical output. The book also includes previously unpublished lyrics from his earliest songs.An enormously readable and meticulously researched biography of one of the giants of contemporary music.
Complicated Shadows: The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello