Elvis costello autobiography review

          This memoir takes us on a voyage through the vanished world of s Britain, and from the urgency of youth to a comfortable middle age.!

          Partway though Elvis Costello's baggy, often brilliant and wholly idiosyncratic memoir, “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,” there's a.

          Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink review – Elvis Costello’s idiosyncratic memoir

          You learn to dread the autobiographies of our most literate pop stars; to read them tensed for the letdown. The last major beast of the lyrical jungle to publish an autobiography through Penguin – Morrissey – came out with writing that was both purple and petulant.

          Maybe the succinctness of the three-minute pop song serves some wits better than the long form.

          At 688 pages, the life work of Elvis Costello is a whopper – written elliptically, episodically, beautifully and infuriatingly by turns.

          “The first time ever he saw my face, Ewan MacColl promptly fell asleep,” is a typical pose. Never particularly given to straight answers where five densely allusive stanzas on the next album will do, Costello probably thinks chronology is for pedants.

          This autobiography, streaked with funny, strange, spiteful and anguished writing, comes from a musician who has been cagey and word-drunk.

        1. Costello's idiosyncratic account of his long career is as infuriating as it is beautifully written.
        2. This memoir takes us on a voyage through the vanished world of s Britain, and from the urgency of youth to a comfortable middle age.
        3. Customers find the book engaging and insightful, offering a fascinating look at the life of an eloquent songwriter.
        4. This book is a loving portrait of what I would call a difficult father, and the mother that raised him.

          5. He’s not born until chapter six. He’s born again, in chapter 25, and not in the Christian sense. As with his beloved grandmother – laid low by Alzheimer’s, imm