Elvis Costello
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	BIRTHDAY: August 25, 1954 GRAMMY AWARDS: 1 ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE: 2003

# 157 Singles Artist of the Year

Elvis Costello & The Attractions hit the Top 40 with "Everyday I Write The Book" from the LP Punch The Clock.

# 180 Singles Artist of the Year

# 103 Singles Artist of the Year

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).

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+).