
 Elvis Costello & The
Attractions hit the Top 40 with "Everyday I Write The
Book."
from the LP Punch
The Clock
ARC 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 True 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 This
Year's Model (1978) at # 98,
Imperial Bedroom (1982) at # 166,
My Aim Is True (1977) at # 168,
and Armed 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 Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (The
River In Reverse with Allen
Toussaint).

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

 The
Best Of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years (Billboard peak: # 110) and Rock
& Roll Music were
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
(available on ).


 The
Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook was released.

In
Motion Pictures was released.


 Costello released Wise
Up Ghost with The Roots.



January 26: Costello won a Grammy
Award for Best Traditional Pop
Vocal Album (Look Now).
October 30: Costello released
Hey 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"
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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"

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