{"id":29965,"date":"2024-07-22T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-22-1977-elvis-costello-released-his-debut-album-my-aim-is-true\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T18:02:53","slug":"on-this-day-july-22-1977-elvis-costello-released-his-debut-album-my-aim-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-22-1977-elvis-costello-released-his-debut-album-my-aim-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 22, 1977: Elvis Costello released his debut album, &#8216;My Aim is True&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-22\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 22, 1977\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong> launched his music career with the U.K. release of his debut album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">My Aim Is True<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, produced by <strong>Nick Lowe<\/strong>, featured Costello backed by the San Francisco country rock band <strong>Clover<\/strong>, although contractual issues resulted in their name being left off the album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although the album did not contain any chart-topping singles, at least two tracks went on to be Costello classics, \u201cAlison\u201d and \u201c(These Angels Want To Wear) My Red Shoes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the release, Costello was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy, although he lost to the R&amp;B group <strong>A Taste of Honey<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Costello is currently on tour with <strong>Daryl Hall<\/strong>. Their tour hits Gilford, New Hampshire, on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 22, 1977\u2026 Elvis Costello launched his music career with the U.K. release of his debut album, My Aim Is True. The album, produced by Nick Lowe, featured Costello backed by the San Francisco country rock band Clover, although contractual issues resulted in their name being left<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-22-1977-elvis-costello-released-his-debut-album-my-aim-is-true\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}