Editing Elvis Costello (section)

=== Family background ===

Costello's mother, Lillian MacManus (née Ablett, 1927–2021), was born and raised in [[Toxteth]], Liverpool, the daughter of a gas-main layer and a mother who became increasingly disabled by [[rheumatoid arthritis]] as Lillian grew up.{{sfn|Costello|2015|pp=136–137}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clayton-Lea |first=Tony |date=15 January 2022 |title=Elvis Costello: 'What you get is this face and this voice that has changed' |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/elvis-costello-what-you-get-is-this-face-and-this-voice-that-has-changed-1.4760262}}</ref> Responsible for caring for her younger brother and sick mother,<ref name="Chalmers2009" /> Lillian left school at 13 and took the first of a series of jobs at music stores. After moving to London with her future husband Ross in 1951, she took a job in the record department in [[Selfridges]] department store and continued selling records through the 1960s.{{sfn |Costello|2015|p=405}}<ref name="Rowland1989">{{Cite magazine|last=Rowland|first=Mark|date=March 1989|title=Elvis Costello in love and war|magazine=Musician}}</ref> Even after she no longer worked selling records, Lillian maintained a keen interest in a wide variety of music, including the popular music of the day.{{sfn |Thomson|2004|p=17}}

Costello's father, [[Ross MacManus]] (1927–2011), was a professional trumpet player and singer, born and raised in [[Birkenhead]],<ref name="Laing2011">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/21/ross-macmanus|title=Ross MacManus obituary|last=Laing|first=Dave|date=21 December 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 May 2018}}</ref> across the [[River Mersey]] from Liverpool. He began his career in music in the late 1940s, playing trumpet in [[bebop]] bands in Birkenhead and Liverpool.{{sfn |Costello|2015|pp=26–27}} He segued to playing trumpet and singing in modern jazz bands after moving to London in 1951.{{sfn|Thomson|2004|pp=11–12}} By 1954, he was sufficiently well known for his son's birth to be announced in the ''[[New Musical Express]]''.{{sfn|Costello|2015|p=405}} From 1955 to 1968, he was a featured singer in [[Joe Loss|Joe Loss Orchestra]], one of Britain's most popular [[big band]]s.<ref name="Laing2011" /> Ross had a solo cabaret act from 1969 through the 1990s, playing workingmen's social clubs in the North of England, Scotland, and Wales.{{sfn |Costello|2015|p=125}}<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Lawley, Sue (Presenter) |date=23 February 1992 |title=Desert Island Discs, Elvis Costello |medium=radio program |language=English |url=https://soundcloud.com/desert-island-discs-99/elvis-costello |access-date=28 May 2018 |publisher=BBC Radio 4}}</ref> Ross recorded for small record labels under a variety of aliases,{{sfn |Costello|2015|pp=206-207}} including Day Costello – Costello being Ross's paternal grandmother's maiden name.<ref name="Schruers1999">{{cite magazine |last=Schruers|first=Fred|date=11 November 1999|title=Fathers & Sons: The Costellos|magazine=Rolling Stone |location=New York}}</ref> He also recorded advertising jingles.{{sfn |Costello|2015|p=155}} In 1973, he sang the "Secret Lemonade Drinker" jingle featured in a series of advertisements for [[R. Whites]], with Costello on backing vocals.{{efn|Some sources incorrectly state that Ross is the actor seen singing the jingle in the television ads, the writer of the jingle, or both. The onscreen actor is [[Julian Chagrin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/322894/40-years-on-lemonade-advert-stars-are-back|title=40 years on, lemonade advert stars are back|last=Sheldrick|first=Giles|date=28 May 2012|website=Express|access-date=14 May 2018}}</ref> The jingle was written by [[Rod Allen (advertising executive)|Rod Allen]], the jingle-writing member for the advertising agency Allen, Brady, and Marsh.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Marquis|first1=Simon|title=Farewell to the jingle maestro|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/sep/17/mondaymediasection12|access-date=14 May 2018|work=The Guardian|date=17 September 2007}}</ref>}}{{sfn |Costello|2015|pp=155–157}}<ref name="Laing2011" />

Ross's father, Patrick Matthew McManus,{{efn|Ross changed the spelling of his surname to MacManus early in his career as a musician.{{Sfn|Thomson|2004|pp=9-10n}}{{sfn|Costello|2015|pp=1–2}}}} known as Pat, was also a professional musician.<ref name="Laing2011" /> Pat was raised in an orphanage from age eight, where he learned to play trumpet. He later played trumpet as an army bandsman, a ship's musician for the [[White Star Line]], and an orchestra musician in music halls and in theatres showing silent films.<ref name="Laing2011" />{{sfn|Costello|2015|pp=273, 276–277, 283–284}} Costello has said that Pat, being the first in the family to make a career in music, is the reason he himself is a musician.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Elvis Costello at Plymouth Pavilions|date=25 July 2015|work=Plymouth Herald}}</ref>