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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

by Elvis Costello

Hardcover, 674 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $30 |

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Title: Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Author: Elvis Costello

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A personal introspective by the pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds and emergence in the MTV world.

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4 weeks on NPR Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List

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Elvis Costello: 'There Is No Absolute Right And Wrong About Music'

October 13, 2015 • Throughout his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Costello grapples with parallels to his father's life. "In the end, music was playing in the room when my father left this earth," he says.

Elvis Costello: 'There Is No Absolute Right And Wrong About Music'

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Elvis Costello's 'Unfaithful Music' Is Defiantly Fun

October 13, 2015 • The musician's new autobiography doesn't follow the conventions of memoir — it jumps around in time from his childhood to his days in the pop-rock trenches, and it doesn't shy away from ugly moments.