Elvis Costello's debut album wasn't expected to be a chart success.

Between 1977 and 1986, Costello put out 11 albums. He worked with well-known producers like T Bone Burnett, Geoff Emerick, and Billy Sherrill. Most notably he worked with Nick Lowe on his first five ...

Elvis Costello knew he needed a well-paying job to become a musician, so he went into computer programming before releasing his 1977 debut album.

The unsigned Elvis Costello wasted no time in 1976 when he learned that a buzzy London-based label was looking for new talent. “I was the first songwriter through the door after reading an ...

On July 9, 1977, a little more than a month before his 23rd birthday, Elvis Costello did what many young, aspiring musicians are told not to do: He quit his day job. Costello had worked several odd ...

Elvis Costello and rock ‘n’ roll were born right around the same time. He came into this world as Declan MacManus in 1954, the same year the guy he took his stage name from, Elvis Presley, first ...

In his autobiography, Elvis Costello wrote that the popular idea of him early on as an angry man was just a trick of physiology. He wrote: “It seems that the space between my two front teeth, which ...

Even those of us lucky enough to have fantastic jobs have daydreamed at least once about an existence that doesn’t require clocking in, working late, or laboring at all. For musicians, this fantasy ...