UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & DISAPPEARING INK - Oct. 2015

[johnfoyle]

Nov. 2015 is the latest date for Elvis's book, according to this info from The Frankfurt Rights Guide


http://www.bardonchinese.com/admin/down ... 30f0e1.pdf





John Kelly told me in August that Elvis was 'busy' writing (everyday!) the book.

[Neil.]

I won't hold my breath! Wasn't this first mooted around the time of 'When I Was Cruel'?!

[johnfoyle]

To be taken with a pinch of salt....


http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/0241003466?t ... oncomm9-22

http://books.google.ie/books/about/Memo ... edir_esc=y

Elvis Costello
Penguin Books Limited (UK), 24 Sep 2015

Author Elvis Costello
Publisher Penguin Books Limited (UK), 2015
ISBN 0241003466, 9780241003466
Length 352 pages

[sweetest punch]

BBC News confirms the memoir for 2015: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30539584

Books in 2015: A look-ahead

Clear space on your shelves or fire up your e-readers for the publishing highlights of 2015.

(...)
On the non-fiction front, there are anniversaries aplenty, with several titles commemorating two battles, Waterloo and Gallipoli. Magna Carta, signed 800 years ago, is the subject of a new book from the historian David Starkey. And the centenary of the Women's Institute is marked in The WI Cookbook.

There are biographies of Lewis Caroll, marking the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, and TS Eliot, 50 years after his death.

The writers John le Carre and Charlotte Bronte are the subject of new books, as is The Kinks frontman Ray Davies. Eric Clapton is also the subject of a biography, released to coincide with his 70th birthday.

There is a memoir by Elvis Costello, in which he tells the story of his 40-year career. And the playwright Sir David Hare David Hare is reflecting on his life in The Blue Touch Paper.
(...)

[sweetest punch]

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books ... -1-3652377

(...)
Elvis Costello, after 40 years in the business, surely won’t need much help in shifting copies of his autobiography, due out in September from Viking.
(...)

[sweetest punch]

The memoir is available for pre-order in Germany: http://www.amazon.de/Memoir-Elvis-Coste ... s+Costello

[sweetest punch]

Also available for pre-order in the USA: http://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Costello ... s+Costello

[johnfoyle]

Some details on publisher's site -

http://www.penguin.com/book/untitled-co ... 0399167256

Untitled Costello Memoir
Elvis Costello

13 Oct 2015

FORMAT

Hardcover PRICE $28.95 Hardcover ISBN 9780399167256

352 Pages 13 Oct 2015 Blue Rider Press

Ebook PRICE $14.99

Audiobook Download ISBN 9780698154650 720 Minutes (Verify)

CD ISBN 9781611764703 720 Minutes (Verify)

[verbal gymnastics]

When it does finally come out I wonder if there'll be some sort of limited edition set at an exorbitant price. Elvis will then say it's a waste of money and then put a list of books that you should spend your money on instead.

Now that would be novel (see what I did there? )

[krm]

either that or we will see alternate version popping up from different publisgers "specially edited by >name here<"-stickers and in 6 months time we will see the reissues with extra alternate version of chapter 2,6and 7. Go figure.....

[verbal gymnastics]

I wonder if a lot of the stories that have come out for the first time on the Detour tour will be in the book.

[sweetest punch]

This website ( http://www.penguin.com/book/unfaithful- ... 0399167256 ) has the title of the memoir: "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink"

[sweetest punch]

http://www.nme.com/news/elvis-costello/83816

Elvis Costello to publish 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' memoir in October

The book will feature 'anecdotes about family and fellow musicians'

Elvis Costello is set to publish his first book, called 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink'.

Coming in October through Penguin, the book will be an autobiographical look at the musician's life, from his early "instances of bad behaviour" to his current position "in the pantheon of elder statesmen musician/rockers".

A press release describes 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' as an "unconventional but indelible memoir", continuing: "This is his story, written himself, rich with anecdotes about family and fellow musicians, introspective about the creation of his famous songs."
(...)

[sweetest punch]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... k-20150323

Elvis Costello Penning Memoir 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink'

"This is his story, written himself, rich with anecdotes about family and fellow musicians, introspective about the creation of his famous songs," Penguin Publishers say of rocker's tome

The man who penned "Everyday I Write the Book" has officially penned one himself. Elvis Costello's "unconventional but indelible memoir" Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink will arrive on October 13th, with the tome available as both a hardcover and an audiobook. Fans can pre-order now at the Penguin site.

The book will find the My Aim Is True rocker looking back at his five-decade career over the course of the memoir's 352 pages. "This is his story, written himself, rich with anecdotes about family and fellow musicians, introspective about the creation of his famous songs," Penguin Publishing wrote in their overview of the autobiography.

While this might be Costello's first official memoir, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer previously penned a 60,000-word reflection on his music and career in 2001 when Rhino reissued his 1977-1996 catalog. As Slate reported, a personal essay by Costello was packed in the liner notes of each album – 17 in all – but those reissues are long out-of-print and the essays were never officially republished. It's unknown whether Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink will repurpose those essays or if the memoir is a completely new work.

Perhaps inspired by his endeavor as an author, Costello's latest concerts, including his most recent gig March 18th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has featured the singer interspersing his personal stories between the songs, creating a quasi-Storytellers feel to the performance.

Before Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink hits shelves, Costello and the Impostors will hit the road with Steely Dan for a joint trek this summer.

[docinwestchester]

While this might be Costello's first official memoir, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer previously penned a 60,000-word reflection on his music and career in 2001 when Rhino reissued his 1977-1996 catalog. As Slate reported, a personal essay by Costello was packed in the liner notes of each album – 17 in all – but those reissues are long out-of-print and the essays were never officially republished.

I don't have any of the reissues. But thanks to everyone who contributed, I can still read all of those liner notes at the EC wiki site. They are fantastic sources of information. As far as I can tell, there are two missing links:


http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... iner_notes
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... iner_notes

[is there a link for the TYM's 2001 liner notes?]
[is there a link for Armed Forces?]

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[Ulster Boy]

Will EC narrate the audio book version?

[sweetest punch]

The cover of the memoir: http://www.penguin.com/book/unfaithful- ... 0399167256

[johnfoyle]

Info. on the cover photo -

http://www.american-buddha.com/rollingstoneB.140.htm

Elvis Costello (Anton Corbijn, 1977)

Amsterdam: Touring to promote his first album, My Aim is True, the twenty-three-year-old Costello was crashing in a hotel room so small Corbijn had to squeeze his over-six-foot frame into a cupboard to get the shot.


It first appeared here -

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... er_5,_1977


From the same session -

[Cocktail Murderess]

I wonder if he'll be up to his old tricks in chapters 4, 5 and 6?

[johnfoyle]

This cover -



has gone from the Penguin link - mysterious!

[Top balcony]

try lemon juice

[johnfoyle]

The cover art has been confirmed as featuring Anton´s photo after all-


http://www.elviscostello.com/news/jacke ... vealed/705


After the cliched , error riddled statement that featured in a recent promo. piece from Penguin USA , it looks like Elvis decided to write a piece himself -

' The long-awaited and greatly anticipated memoir by one of the music world’s most iconic and influential performers and songwriters, Elvis Costello, will publish in Fall 2015.

March 31, 2015 (New York, NY) – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello, will be published in Fall 2015 around the world. The jacket image was revealed by Blue Rider Press today.

Mr. Costello’s publishers include: Blue Rider Press (North America), Penguin UK (Great Britain and Commonwealth), Bruna (Holland), Berlin Verlag (Germany) and Norstedts (Sweden).

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” 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.

The memoir, written entirely by Costello himself, 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.'

[Jack of All Parades]

This cover -



has gone from the Penguin link - mysterious!

I rather like that cover should it truly turn out to grace the book- the artist with his 'pen' and totally iconic and ironic in that one of the strongest lyrical observers of the latter half of the twentieth century when it comes to dissecting 'romance' and matters of the heart is posed within a hotel room apropos of 'unfaithfulness' as we have come to learn first hand over the decades from countless songs within his oeuvre.

[verbal gymnastics]

No doubt that Elvis wrote that!

[sulky lad]

Now that the book must surely be finished , how about writing some new songs, working with a heavy metal , funk or Cajun band ( or The Imposters) or a Steve Nieve album of love song covers and new stuff - now there are enough ideas for the next 5 years, eh Elvis ??