Rock On The Net: Elvis Costello (original) (raw)

Elvis Costello & The Attractions hit the Top 40 with "Everyday I Write The Book."
from the LP Punch The ClockARC chart run: 35 - 28 - 25 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 196
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

Costello hit the Top 40 with "Veronica."

The video for "Veronica" won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video and was nominated for Breakthrough Video.

Costello was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance (Mighty Like A Rose).

Costello was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals ("God Give Me Strength" with Burt Bacharach).

Ranked # 38 on VH1: Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll(and # 49 on Rock On The Net's Poll).

Costello won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals ("I Still Have That Other Girl" with Burt Bacharach).

VH1: 100 Greatest Albums included My Aim Is Tru e at # 80.

Costello was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("45"), for Best Rock Album (When I Was Cruel), and Best Alternative Music Performance (Cruel Smile).

March 10: Elvis Costello & The Attractions were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included T his Year's Model (1978) at # 98,Imperial B e droom (1982) at # 166,My Aim Is Tru e (1977) at # 168, and Arm e d Forces (1979) at # 482.

Rolling Stone: The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time included Costello at # 80.

Costello released Delivery Man.

Elvis was nominated for 4 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("Let's Misbehave"), Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("Monkey To Man" with The Imposters), for Best Rock Album (Delivery Man), and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (awarded to the songwriter) ("The Scarlet Tide" with Henry Burnett).

Costello released My Flame Burns Blue - a live LP with the Metropole Orkest (a jazz orchestra from the Netherlands).

Elvis released The River In Reverse (Billboard peak: # 103 - Rolling Stone: ) with Allen Toussaint.

Elvis could be heard on Tony Bennett's LP Duets: American Classic on the track "Are You Havin' Any Fun?."

Elvis was nominated for a Grammy Awardfor Best Pop Vocal Album (The River In Reverse with Allen Toussaint).

Elvis could be heard on the tribute LP A Tribute To Joni Mitchellwith the track "Edith And The Kingpen."

The Best Of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years (Billboard peak: # 110) and Rock & Roll Musicwere released.

Elvis could be heard on the tribute LP Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash on the track "Ring Of Fire."

Elvis release Momofuku (Billboard peak: # 59 - Rolling Stone: - Entertainment Weekly:A-).

Entertainment Weekly: 100 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years included King Of America at # 53.

Elvis released Secret, Profane And Sugarcane (available for download at iTunes and Amazon-mp3) (Billboard peak: # 13 - Rolling Stone: - Entertainment Weekly:B+).

Elvis was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album (Secret, Profane And Sugarcane).

Elvis released National Ransom
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The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook was released.

In Motion Pictures was released.

Costello released Wise Up Ghost with The Roots.

• October 23: Costello releasedUnfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album.

• October 12: Costello with The Imposters released Look Now. Tracks: "Under Lime" - "Don't Look Now" - "Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter" - "Stripping Paper" - "Unwanted Number" - "I Let The Sun Go Down" - "Mr. & Mrs. Hush" - "Photographs Can Lie" - "Dishonor The Stars" - "Suspect My Tears" - "Why Won't Heaven Help Me?" - "He's Given Me Things"
  available for download atiTunes and Amazon.mp3
  available on vinyl
  Grammy Nominee: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• January 26: Costello won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Look Now).
• October 30: Costello releasedHey Clockface.Tracks: "Revolution #49" - "No Flag" - "They're Not Laughing At Me Now" - "Newspaper Pane" - "I Do (Zula's Song)" - "We Are All Cowards Now" - "Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me?" - "The Whirlwind" - "Hetty O'Hara Confidential" - "The Last Confession Of Vivian Whip" - "What Is It That I Need That I Don't Already Have?" - "Radio Is Everything" - "I Can't Say Her Name" - "Byline"
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
  available on vinyl

• January 14: Elvis with The Imposters released The Boy Named If. Tracks: "Farewell, OK" - "The Boy Named If" - "Penelope Halfpenny" - "The Difference" - "What If I Can't Give You Anything But Love?" - "Paint The Red Rose Blue" - "Mistook Me For A Friend" - "My Most Beautiful Mistake" - "Magnificent Hurt" - "The Man You Love To Hate" - "The Death Of Magic Thinking" - "Trick Out The Truth" - "Mr. Crescent"

• February 5: Elvis with the Imposters were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (The Boy Named If).
• March 3: Costello releasedThe Songs Of Bacharach & Costello.