Timeline Elvis Costello: This Year's Model

Angry young man, country singer, classical collaborator — Elvis Costello, the restless songwriter of punk's new wave.

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1954 Elvis Costello born in London Declan MacManus The son of a dance-band singer, raised in London and Liverpool.
1977 Elvis Costello signs with Stiff Records Computer operator A computer operator who records demos in his lunch breaks.
1977 Elvis Costello releases My Aim Is True Alison A debut with Alison and Watching the Detectives.
1977 Elvis Costello stops a song on Saturday Night Live Radio Radio Switches to a banned song on live TV — banned from the show for 12 years.
1978 Elvis Costello releases This Year's Model With the Attractions His first album with the Attractions.
1979 Elvis Costello releases Armed Forces Oliver's Army His biggest UK hit.
1981 Elvis Costello releases Almost Blue Country album An album of country covers recorded in Nashville.
1982 Elvis Costello releases Imperial Bedroom Ambitious pop Ornate pop often called his masterpiece.
1983 Elvis Costello releases Shipbuilding Falklands War A song about the Falklands War, with Chet Baker on trumpet.
1989 Elvis Costello releases Veronica With Paul McCartney Co-written with McCartney — his biggest US hit.
1993 Elvis Costello releases The Juliet Letters With the Brodsky Quartet A song cycle with a string quartet.
1998 Elvis Costello releases Painted from Memory With Burt Bacharach A collaboration with Burt Bacharach — a Grammy.
2003 Elvis Costello inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame With the Attractions Inducted with the Attractions.