Elvis Costello & The Attractions
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He reconvened the band for one-off albums and tours over the following decade. He has also enlisted Nieve - and to a lesser extent Pete Thomas - for other recordings and performances, and continues to do so to present day. He has not worked with Bruce Thomas since the band was originally disbanded. Costello and Bruce Thomas had a notoriously stormy relationship, documented in Thomas’s autobiographical novel The Big Wheel in 1990. Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve, along with Bruce Thomas’ replacement Davey Faragher, now form Costello’s current backing band, The Imposters.
Together, Costello and The Attractions recorded 10 albums, most of which are critically regarded as among Costello’s finest. They are: This Year’s Model (1978); Armed Forces (1979); Get Happy (1980); Trust (1981); Almost Blue (1981); Imperial Bedroom (1982); Punch the Clock (1983); Goodbye Cruel World (1984); Blood and Chocolate (1986), and All This Useless Beauty (1996). The full band plays on some, but not all, tracks on the 1994 release Brutal Youth, which is credited to Costello alone. The Attractions also recorded an album without Costello, Mad About the Wrong Boy (1980).
They most recently appeared together, although they didn’t play, when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.
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