Complicated Shadows

The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello

By: Graeme Thomson

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Paperback | 18 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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480 Pages

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This definitive biography of a songwriting legend follows on from Elvis Costello's successful 2004 tour of Australia and is just in time for his album release of February 2006. Complicated Shadows is a music biography set to please everyone except its subject!

The book draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with Costello's schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, and journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages of his life and career.

Complicated Shadows unearths many previously unknown details about Costello's early years and his personal life, as well as examining his entire musical output. The book also includes previously unpublished lyrics from his earliest songs.

An enormously readable and meticulously researched biography of one of the giants of contemporary music.

Industry Reviews

"Brilliantly written... in the absence of Elvis Costello putting pen to paper himself, this is far and away the next best thing." Record Collector; "A substantive record of the man's energy and brilliance after nearly 30 years of standing up when we might have expected him to be falling down." Observer; "A cracker... meticulously researched and fluently told." Observer Music Monthly; "Thomson's pop scholarship is strong: he has gone deep into the archives and immersed himself in the music." Guardian; "As believable and fair a picture of the man himself as I suspect is actually possible. He'll not like it though." Herald; "Vital" Uncut"

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