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Born in London in 1955 as Declan Patrick McManus, Elvis Costello left school at the age of 17. He worked as a computer operator by day and turned himself into a folk singer at night. His first album, released in 1977, My Aim Is True, was recorded during a series of "sick" days from work. Little short of breathtaking, it hit the charts becoming the biggest U.S. import album of the decade when it crossed the Atlantic on the CBS/Columbia label. On his first U.S. tour, when a clash with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlet turned ugly, Costello flew back home with death threats ringing in his ears. In the twenty years since there have been twenty-three more albums that have made pop music history. Tony Clayton-Lea, an award winning music writer, tells the fascinating life story of the elusive icon -- the hits, the drugs, the drink, the women, the critics, and the record companies -- of the man who once said it was his ultimate vocation in life to be an irritant.
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