Contents
- Songbooks
- A Singing Dictionary. Elvis Costello. 1980 Plangent Visions Music Inc. Music scores and lyrics to: MAIT, TYM, AF, GH!!, TL plus "That's What Friends Are For"
- Everyday I Write The Song (Grumbling Appendix To The Singing Dictionary). Elvis Costello. 1983 Plangent Visions Music Ltd. Music scores and lyrics to: Trust, Imperial Bedroom, Punch The Clock, plus some great photos
- Spike. Elvis Costello. 1989 Warner Bros. Publications VF1573.
- Brutal Youth. Elvis Costello. 1994 Music Sales.
- The Juliet Letters. Elvis Costello. 1996 Chester Music.
- Painted from Memory - The New Songs of Bacharach & Costello - By Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach. Edited by Sy Feldman. PV/C. Songbook. 70 pages. Published by Warner Brothers. (0351B)
- Best Selection [2000-__-__; book; Shinko Music (Japan, 71pp, 8.5"x11")] - w. guitar tab, bass tab, keyboard score and drum score
-
The
Very Best Of Elvis Costello - arrangements for piano and voice
with guitar chords. 208 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (306331)
- Sheet Music
- Good Year For The Roses
- Sweet Dreams
-
Everyday I Write The Book
- Biographies
- Elvis Costello: A Completely False Biography Based On Rumour, Innuendo And Lies - Krista Reese 1981 Proteus Publishing ISBN0906071623.
- Elvis Costello: So Far - Richard Groothuizen. 1983 private publication
- Elvis Costello: The Illustrated Disco/Biography - Geoff Parkyn. 1984 Omnibus Press ISBN 0711905312. Covers to release of GCW
- Elvis Costello: An Illustrated Biography - Mick St.Michael. 1986 Omnibus Press ISBN 0711907722. Covers up to release of Best Of
- Going Through The Motions (Elvis Costello 1982/1985) - Richard Groothuizen and Kees den Heyer, Elcos
- Elvis Costello: A Man Out Of Time (A Critical Companion To His Lyrics And Music) - David Gouldstone. 1989 Sidgwick & Jackson ISBN 0283997079. Covers up to B&C
- God's Comic - David Gouldstone. 1990 St Martin's Press ISBN 0 312 04309 0.
- Elvis Costello [1993-__-__; book; ISBN: 84-376-1106-7 (Spain)] - Eduardo Margaretto. Ed. Catedra, S.A., language: Spanish, 286 pages
- The Big Wheel [2002-03-29; book; Bingham P.; ISBN: 0954230116 new edition (UK)] - Bruce Thomas
- The Big Wheel - Bruce Thomas. 1990 Viking 0670834432.
- The Big Wheel [2002-03-29; book; Bingham P.; ISBN: 0954230116 new edition (UK)] - Bruce Thomas
- The Big Wheel [2003-05-11; book; Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN: 1900924536 (paperback)] - Bruce Thomas - not released with this cover
- The Big Wheel [2003-06; book; Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN: 1900924536 (paperback)] - Bruce Thomas
- Elvis Costello: A Biography - Tony Clayton-Lea. 1998 (UK) hardback, ISBN 0 23399 295 2.
- Elvis Costello: A Biography - Tony Clayton-Lea. 1999 (UK) paperback
- Elvis Costello: A Biography hardcover - Tony Clayton-Lea. 1999-04 (US), ISBN 0 88064 235 1.
- Elvis Costello: A Biography paperback - Tony Clayton-Lea. 2000-10 (US), ISBN 0 88064 255 6.
- Elvis Costello: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 70) - James E. Perone, hardcover (January 1999), ISBN: 0313303991. (available online from Greenwood Publishing Group)
- Let Them All Talk - Brian Hilton. 1999-04 (UK) Sanctuary, 9.99, 1 86074 196 7. (US release planned for July 1999)
- Elvis Costello (The Music Makers series) - David Sheppard [2001-01-15; paperback; Unanimous ISBN 1-903318-42-4 (UK)], 138 pages - UK version of Kill You Idols
- Elvis Costello (Kill Your Idols series) - David Sheppard [2001-01-27; paperback; Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN 1-56025-303-7 (US)], 138 pages
- On The Road Again [2003-__-__; hardcover; Bentwyck Henry Publishers (UK)] - Bruce Thomas
- Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition [2004-04-30; book hardcover; Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0275973921] - Larry David Smith (Author)
- Diving For Pearls - Paul Mathur [2004-09; book hardcover; Piatkus Books ISBN: 0749950145 ], 256 pages
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Complicated Shadows: The Life & Music of Elvis Costello - Graeme Thomson [2004-10-01; book hardcover; Canongate Books Ltd ISBN: 1841955442], 528 pages
- General Music Books
- New Musical Express: Who's Who In Rock & Roll [1991-__-__; hardcover; Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, ISBN 0-517-056879 (UK)] - pp75-76
- No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution - Will Birch (to be published on 2000-04-06 in UK). It features EC on the cover and fairly heavily in the text; see http://www.dbd.co.uk/willbirch/
- Rebel Heart: An American Rock 'n' Roll Journey [2001-08-__; book; St Martins Press, ISBN: 0312266944 , pp320] - Bebe Beull
- Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1990, ISBN: 0-8050-1396-2.
- Rock Yearbook 1982 (big image)
- Scully [____-__-__; paperback; ] TV show script - Elvis in photo
- Track Records/Paul Gambraccini's Profiles of John Lennon, Elvis
Costello, Curtis Mayfield, the Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young,
Aretha Franklin -Paul Gambaccini, 0241114470
- Related Artists
- Bruce Lee - Fighting Spirit [2002-07-19; book/paperback; Sidgwick & Jackson; ISBN: 0283073578 Updated Ed, pp414 (UK)] - Bruce Thomas
- Bruce Lee - Fighting Spirit [1997-02-07; book/paperback; Pan; ISBN: 0330349309 new edition, pp384 (UK)] - Bruce Thomas
- Burt Bacharach: Song By Song [2003-07; book/paperback; Schirmer Books; ISBN: 0825672805] - includes songs with Elvis Costello
"From _Rolling Stone_'s most prolific writer of cover stories comes a collection of fifty-nine profiles and interviews spanning the first half-century of rock and roll." The interview with Elvis Costello comes from the 1983 issue of Musician magazine and is found in the section called "Progeny" which follows sections "Pioneers" and "Pilgrims". It spans pages 625 to 645.