An explosive, groundbreaking album that crowned a new king of rock in
just 33 minutes Before Elvis Costello was one of Rolling Stone's
greatest artists of all time, before he was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame, he was Declan P. McManus, an office drone with a dull
suburban life and a side gig in a pub rock band. In 1976, under the
guidance of legendary label Stiff Records, he transformed himself into
the snarling, spectacled artist who defied the musical status quo to
blaze the trail for a new kind of rock star with his debut album, My Aim
Is True. In Elvis Is King, Richard Crouse examines how the man, the
myth, and the music of this arrestingly original album smashed the
trends of the era to bridge the gap between punk and rock 'n' roll.