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Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True - 49th Edition
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True - 49th Edition
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PRE ORDER - Album - Release Date: 02/10/26
Elvis Costello's debut My Aim Is True returns remastered from the original 1977 analog master tapes. Its 13 songs include Less Than Zero and Alison, both non-charting U.K. singles, (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, a minor hit, and Watching The Detectives, his first Top 20 single.
This expansive 5CD box set gathers 104 tracks, including 52 unreleased songs, demos, outtakes and live performances. It also includes a 72-page liner essay by Elvis Costello, with unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics from his notebooks, and diary entries from 1976 during the making of My Aim Is True.
The story across 5 CDs:
- CD1: My Aim Is True (2026 Remaster) – remastered from the original 1977 analog master tapes
- CD2: The Blue Print – acoustic recordings and demos recorded before My Aim Is True
- CD3: The Stranger In The House – how Declan MacManus became Elvis Costello in 28 songs
- CD4: Becoming The Attractions – as they took charge of the My Aim Is True songs and then went mad
- CD5: Covered In Clover – the first and last time Costello and Clover played My Aim Is True live in 2007
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