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"Alison" is a song written by and first recorded by Elvis Costello in 1977 for his debut album My Aim Is True on Stiff Records. Costello claimed the song was written as an ode to a woman he saw working at a supermarket, though he has remained vague on the meaning.
Elvis Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus, [b] on 25 August 1954, at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London, the only child of a record shop worker and a jazz musician. [22]
According to Costello, "Welcome to the Working Week" was one of several songs for My Aim Is True that was written during a span of "two or three weeks" in the summer of 1977. [1] Like the rest of the songs on the album, it was recorded by Costello with the American country rock band Clover. Costello reflected on the members of Clover, "Perhaps ...
Ahead of Green Day‘s belated 25th anniversary edition of its fifth album, Nimrod, the long-running rock trio has unveiled a previously unreleased demo version of Elvis Costello and the ...
McFee has played on a number of Elvis Costello's albums, beginning with all the lead and pedal steel guitar work on My Aim is True; [2] he played lead guitar on "Alison". He has also continued to perform live with Costello periodically through the years. John McFee, Big Sur, California, 2017, wearing traditional Scottish garb
Prior to the January 27, 2023, release, the band also released a second demo; a cover of Elvis Costello's "Alison" on January 13, 2023. [54] Upon release of the anniversary edition, many critics and fans noted that the demo "Black Eyeliner" was repurposed by Armstrong for two different songs later in his career.
Elvis Costello is performing more than 200 songs from his vast catalog over the course of a 10-show residency at the Gramercy Theater in New York from Feb. 9-22. Costello superfan (and comedian ...
The album contains three songs by Elvis Costello ("Party Girl", "Girls Talk" and "Talking in the Dark") as well as three tracks from The Cretones' first album, Thin Red Line (1980). Although Ronstadt had regularly recorded edgy material by non-mainstream songwriters, including Elvis Costello's "Alison," she hired Cretones guitarist Mark ...