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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello

3.0

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Look, I love Elvis Costello more than most people. He's my all-time favorite singer/songwriter. But everyone believes his or her own life story is more fascinating to others than it actually is, which is why memoirists are in particular need of a strong, impartial editor -- and it's clear that Elvis didn't get one. This book is full of charming, star-studded anecdotes that would be brilliant if cherry-picked for the best ones and organized into some sort of narrative arc. Instead, they are heaped onto the reader, one after the other, with no clear overarching narrative, for 674 pages. It's just too much, and the storytelling is too loose. I found myself skimming through the less interesting stories. 3 stars, but only because it's Elvis Costello. Anyone else would've gotten 2.