Unfaithful music & disappearing ink. Elvis Costello. 2015.

Born Declan Patrick McManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and the son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and before he watwenty-four took the popular music world by storm.

Almost four decades later, Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of our day. His performances have taken him from strumming a cardboard guitar in his parents’ front room to fronting a rock and roll band on our television screens 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 endured through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, and has even seen the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom.

This memoir, written with the same i imitation touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his personal archive, offers his unique view of an unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success.nit features diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best-known songs and the hits of tomorrow, and many stories and observations  about his renowned do-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations of the less appealing side of fame.