| Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink | |
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| Released | 2015 |
| Genre | Spoken word |
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is a memoir and spoken word album by Elvis Costello. The album earned Costello a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Album. [1]
Declan Patrick MacManus, known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including two Grammy Awards in 1999 and 2020, and has twice been nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist. In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
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