Bubbles created designs for artists such as Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter and Clive Langer & The Boxes.

Even more unusual for a band of the scene that spawned them, they were also informed by such new wavers as Elvis Costello, The Jam and Nick Lowe, as well as authors like Jack Kerouac.

" The term was often used in reference to critics ' favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, whose style was viewed as a less-threatening version of punk rock.

After the break-up, Hopkins continued as a songwriter, O ’ Hara became a recording engineer and de Lone played as a session musician with Bonnie Raitt, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and others.

Lowe also wrote "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding ", a hit for Costello.

Lowe wrote some of his best-known compositions while a member of Brinsley Schwarz, including "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding ", a hit for Elvis Costello in 1979, and " Cruel to Be Kind ", a solo hit for Lowe in 1979.

In September 2010 Yep Roc issued The Impossible Bird, Dig My Mood and The Convincer on vinyl for the first time, and after a one-night reunion concert with Elvis Costello in October in San Francisco, Lowe embarked on his first non-solo United States tour " this millennium.

It was the first of five consecutive Costello albums produced by Nick Lowe.

Edmunds, however, was reluctant, so the company had Costello and Clover re-record some of his songs, with Lowe producing, to try to persuade him.

These included pop bands like XTC, Squeeze and Nick Lowe, the electronic rock of Gary Numan as well as songwriters like Elvis Costello, rock & roll influenced bands like the Pretenders, the reggae influenced music of bands like The Police, as well as bands of the ska revival like The Specials and Madness.

Canvey Island was an influential destination in the 1970s for artists of the Pub rock genre of music such as Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Nick Lowe, and The Kursaal Flyers, while also being home to " Canvey Island ’ s finest " band Dr. Feelgood.

During this time his style evolved from country-rock to New Wave influenced rock in the style of Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Graham Parker.

It was the second Costello album, after Almost Blue, not produced by Nick Lowe.

Production was completed by Colin Fairley, whose experience included working with artists Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe.

The band's sound was heavily influenced by the British scene, especially The Beatles, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, and later by the Punk and New Wave sounds of Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Roxy Music, The Stranglers and The Clash.

These included pop bands like XTC, Squeeze and Nick Lowe, the electronic rock of Gary Numan as well as songwriters like Elvis Costello, rock & roll influenced bands like the Pretenders, the reggae influenced music of bands like The Police, as well as bands of the ska revival like The Specials and Madness.

Along with a basic Eastern-coast roots-rock sound that owed much to the inspirations of DiNizio, including Buddy Holly, The Who, The Clash, Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe, the Smithereens deployed a uniquely retro obsession with Mod, the late British Invasion pop of John's Children and The Move, and other artifacts of fifties and sixties culture that lent its music substance.

Lowe had previously been signed to Stiff Records, as had several other Radar acts, including Yachts, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and Radar's major act, Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

Stiff Records organised a joint tour for Nick Lowe, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Larry Wallis and Elvis Costello, five of their biggest acts at the time with the intentions of having the bands alternating as the headlining act.

" It helped break in New York and nationally early records by Elvis Costello, the Police, Nick Lowe, the Clash, the Cars, Squeeze, Devo, the Kings, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, the Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick, Talking Heads, David Johansen, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, to name just a few.

Jake Riviera ( born Andrew Jakeman, February 1948, in Edgware, Middlesex ) is a music business entrepreneur best known for his management of such performers as Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe and as co-founder ( with Dave Robinson ) of pioneering British indie label Stiff Records.

Riviera also managed other early Stiff signings Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, who was also in-house producer.

He recruited Barney Bubbles into the fold, where the designer worked with Riviera on an impressive run of record sleeves, posters, badges and adverts for Lowe, the Damned, Costello and such singular performers as Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric and the veteran music hall star Max Wall.

In the days following his death, tributes were paid to him by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and an uncounted number of musicians and performers, including Eric Burdon, Elvis Costello, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, B.

Barrymore was born into acting: her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice Costello and Mae Costello ( Altschuk ) and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were all actors ; John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.

Among the topics discussed during the launch were the need to increase compulsory superannuation contributions, as well as to restore incentives ( removed under Howard / Costello ) for people to receive their superannuation payments in annuities.

They were joined by Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k. d.

Vito Genovese and Frank Costello were fighting for control of the Luciano family.

The founders of the INLA were Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of the Official IRA in the wake of the OIRA's 1972 ceasefire and the increasingly reformist approach of Official Sinn Féin.

There were several pie fights between takes as well, but Abbott and Costello respected the three monsters ( Chaney as the Wolfman, Lugosi as Dracula and Strange as the Monster ) and made sure no pies were flung at the heavily made-up actors.

* The final scene with the Invisible Man presaged 1951's Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, though Price did not star, and all characters were different.

The following governments were led by Costello:

During World War II, Abbott and Costello were among the most popular and highest-paid stars in the world.

In 1951 the duo became one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour ( Eddie Cantor and Bob Hope were among the others ) and the following year they inaugurated their own situation comedy, The Abbott and Costello Show.

William " Bud " Abbott and Lou Costello ( born Louis Francis Cristillo ), were an American comedy duo whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s.

When AMC moved the old theater west on 42nd Street to its current location, giant balloons of Abbott and Costello were rigged to appear to pull it.

Abbott and Costello were among the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II.

In 1942, Abbott and Costello were the top box office draw with four films earning a total of $ 10 million.

After working as Allen's summer replacement, Abbott and Costello joined Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on The Chase and Sanborn Hour in 1941, while two of their films ( Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost ) were adapted for Lux Radio Theater.

The cartoon series was not the first time Abbott and Costello were in animation.

In 1994, comedian Jerry Seinfeld — who says Abbott and Costello were strong influences on his work — hosted a television special Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld ( the title refers to the duo's popular film series in which they met some of Universal's famed horror picture characters ), on NBC ; the special was said to have been seen in 20 million homes.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Fear, Itself, Buffy says, " If I were Abbott and Costello, this would be fairly traumatic ," upon entering a frat house's Halloween party.

Abbott tries to explain to Costello that they've been called next (" I thought you were called " Abbott "?

This can be seen from this example of John A. Costello addressing the Oireachtas in 1963: " For many years, we were afflicted with the miserable trivialities of our tourist advertising.