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Elvis Costello Performs with The Roots at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas

Elvis Costello performed with The Roots during the opening week end kick-off of the new Brooklyn Bowl on March 15, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Brooklyn Bowl is located in The LINQ, Caesars Entertainment’s open air district in the center of the world famous Las Vegas Strip (Photo credit: Denise Truscello / WireImage / www.DeniseTruscello.net). 

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Elvis Costello is a British singer-songwriter known as much for his quirky lyrics full of word plays as for his unique music, instrumentation and vocal style, influenced by diverse musical genres. He was born Declan Patrick MacManus in 1954 and only later adopted the name Elvis Costello. He was a professed admirer of Elvis Presley, so first part of the pseudonym came from there. Costello had been the maiden name of his mother.

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Costello landed his first deal with Stiff Records in 1977 and recorded the album “My Aim Is True” with them. The album became a moderate hit. He later struck a deal with Columbia records who would go to publish his songs in the US. Later in the same year, Costello formed “The Attractions”, his own band that also included Bruce Thomas in bass guitar, Steve Nieve in piano and Pete Thomas as the drummer. “Watching the Detectives,” the single which was a smashing success was however recorded with Nieve, Andrew Bodnar and Steve Goulding. The last two played bass and drums, respectively, for The Rumour, the band he auditioned for The Attractions.

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Costello is currently husband to singer Diana Krall and has two sons with her. Previously he was married twice. Mary Burgoyne was his first wife whom he married in 1974. In 1986, he married the former The Pogues bassist Cait O’Riordan. In 1998, Elvis Costello teamed up with Burt Bacharach to record “Painted From Memory,” an album of love songs. In March 2003, Costello was cemented as a musical legend with his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Schedule of upcoming shows:

• March 19—Brett Dennen
• March 20-22—Cake
• March 20-22—Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (late)
• March 23—Local Natives
• March 26-29, April 2-5, 9-12—Galactic (late)
• March 29-30—Lettuce
• April 5-6, 19-20—Robert Randolph & the Family Band (late and brunch)
• April 10—Bonobo
• April 12—Big Gigantic
• April 14—The Naked and Famous / The 1975, with the White Lies
• April 15—The Green
• April 16-19—Trombone Shorty (late)
• April 17—Chance the Rapper
• April 18-20—Phil Lesh & Friends
• April 20—The Infamous Stringdusters (late)
• April 24-26—O.A.R.
• April 25-26, May 2-3—Gogol Bordello (late)
• May 1-3—Primus
• May 5—Twenty One Pilots
• May 8-10—Jane’s Addiction performing “Nothing’s Shocking”
• May 22-25—Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk & Soul Rebels Brass Band
• May 29-31—Tedeschi Trucks Band (early)
• May 29-31—Soulive (late)
• June 5—Black Label Society
• June 10-11—Thievery Corporation
• June 13-14—Steve Winwood
• August 7—Chromeo
• August 29-31—The Avett Brothers
• Coming Soon—The String Cheese Incident

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For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.brooklynbowl.com.

Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
The Linq, Suite 22
3545 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-862 BOWL (2695)

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Photo credit: Denise Truscello / WireImage / www.DeniseTruscello.net.

Photo credit: Denise Truscello / WireImage / www.DeniseTruscello.net.

Photo credit: Denise Truscello / WireImage / www.DeniseTruscello.net.