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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four. Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world's greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company.
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink describes how Costello's career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom. This memoir, written with the same inimitable touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his personal archive, offers his 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. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy.
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.
Mike Myers reprises his role as Austin Powers, the oversexed
super-spy from the sixties. Arch-enemy Dr Evil has travelled back
in time to 1969 and stolen Powers' mojo, the secret of his
all-conquering virility. Realising that this theft is probably part
of one of Dr Evil's attempts at world domination, our intrepid hero
gives chase, following the super-criminal back to 1960s swinging
London. Once there, he teams up with the beautiful CIA agent
Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), but due to his aforementioned
lack in the mojo department, he is unfortunately unable to
consummate the relationship - which raises the stakes considerably.
Watch for cameos from Elvis Costello, Jerry Springer and Woody
Harrelson.
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I Scare Myself - A Memoir (Paperback)
Dan Hicks; Foreword by Elvis Costello; Afterword by Tommy LiPuma; Edited by Kristine McKenna
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'Dan is a national treasure and one of America s great songwriters.
Elvis Costello. 'Dan s songs were funny, serious, and entertaining,
and the combo of old-timey folk, country, and jazz knocked me out.
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. 'Dan Hicks is like
lightning in a bottle. Bette Midler. Dan Hicks didn t have his
heart set on a career in music. It all just sort of happened to
him. It didn t hurt, of course, that he was in the right place at
the right time San Francisco, 1966 and had a front-row seat for the
birth and death of the counterculture. Among other things, this is
a classic story of the 60s. More importantly, it s a story of
musical genius. By the time the Summer of Love limped to a close in
the fall of 67, Hicks had quit the Charlatans the pioneering
psych-rock band with whom he played the drums and turned to jazz,
the music he d secretly loved all along, as he began building his
own band, the Hot Licks. 'I just started taking ingredients I liked
and putting them together to see what came out, Hicks writes. What
came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual
instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the
top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink
and drug abuse. Emerging from a long wilderness, which he writes
about here with wit and candour, the man described by Tom Waits as
'fly, sly, wily, and dry eventually returned to recording and
performing, making a number of acclaimed albums, including Beatin
The Heat, a set of duets with Waits, Costello, Rickie Lee Jones,
and more. Along the way, his music continued to subtly permeate the
culture, turning up everywhere from The Sopranos to commercials for
Levi s and Bic. Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and
the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as
ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music,
and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.
By the mid-1980s, singer-songwriter John Hiatt had been dropped
from three record labels, burned through two marriages, and had
fallen deep into alcoholism. Â It took a stint in rehab and a
new family to inspire him, then a producer and an A&R man to
have a little faith. By February 1987, he was back in the studio on
a shoestring budget with a hand-picked supergroup consisting of Ry
Cooder on guitar, Nick Lowe on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums,
recording what would become his masterpiece, Bring the Family.
 Based on author Michael Elliott's multiple extensive and
deeply personal interviews with Hiatt as well as his collaborators
and contemporaries, including Rosanne Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Ry
Cooder, and many others, Have a Little Faithis the journey through
the musical landscape of the 1960s through today that places
Hiatt’s long career in context with the glossy pop,
college-alternative, mainstream country, and heartland rock of the
last half-century. Hiatt’s life both pre- and post-Family will be
revealed, as well as the music loved by critics, fellow musicians,
and fans alike.
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