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Re: Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello

Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello
March 23, 2014 02:44PM
Picked this up in a used book store recently and just have been flipping through but a pretty interesting read in some respects (in some others not so much). The critic Graeme Thomson is the author (penned a Kate Bush book too).

Some interesting little insights into Costello and Bruce Thomas falling out, Shane MacGowan not really liking Costello much and the whole sort of Pogues/O'Riordan fall-out, and things like that. The book covers up to 2004-2005.

Thomson seems to think the best Costello records are Get Happy!!, Imperial Bedroom and King of America, which I had to read twice just to make sure he really had left out all of the first 3 from any spot in the top 3.......



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Re: Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello
March 25, 2014 11:23AM
The three top Elvis Costello albums? "Get Happy!!" - Yes. "Imperial Bedroom" - Yes. But "King Of America…?!" Surely he meant to include "Armed Forces!"



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Re: Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello
March 26, 2014 05:25PM
I read this last year, (well about 90% of it- I found it tends to drag on towards the end of the book making for a bit of tediousness . He remains the "white whale" of biographers everywhere, imho
Re: Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello
March 26, 2014 05:47PM
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He remains the "white whale" of biographers everywhere, imho

Wonder if this will entice ErikAlbany to read it. I personally think Elvis is OK, but perhaps not interesting enough to read a biography about.
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