Elvis Costello: A Singing Dictionary

by Elvis Costello

Songs from the albums My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy!!, Taking Liberties. Songs include: Blame It on Cain * Alison * No Action * Little Triggers * Accidents Will Happen * Chemistry Class * Love for Tender * Motel Matches * Girls Talk * Radio Sweetheart * Just a Memory * Sunday's Best and more.

Genres: Music

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus) is an English musician and singer-songwriter of Irish descent. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s. Steeped in wordplay, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs, and his music has drawn on dozens of genres. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, "Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image".

Costello and Canadian jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall were married on December 6, 2003 at Elton John's estate outside London. Their first children together, twin sons Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, were born December 6, 2006 in New York City.

Reviews

[Todd Glaeser · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book of sheet music for the first couple of albums, but at the time the only place to find the lyrics for those incredible songs. I have read that there are inaccuracies but still an important part of my personal music history.