Elvis Costello & The Attractions’ ‘Armed Forces’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

January 4, 2024 Libby Cudmore

It’s no accident that one of Costello’s sharpest, cruelest albums ends with a call to hold onto the hope that all may be put right again.

Elvis Costello’s ‘This Year’s Model’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

March 14, 2023 Terry Nelson

Costello’s second studio affair made it difficult for casual observers to lazily compare him and his band (The Attractions) to other New Wave acts of that era.

Elvis Costello’s Debut Album ‘My Aim Is True’ Turns 45 | Anniversary Retrospective

July 20, 2022 Terry Nelson

Elvis Costello Debut Album My Aim Is True

Costello’s debut LP took the punk aesthetic and married it to brilliant songwriting and flawless musicianship.

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.

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