Editing Elvis Costello (section)

==Legacy== 
[[File:Elvis Costello performing in Dublin, Ireland 2024.jpg|thumb|Elvis Costello performing in Dublin, Ireland in 2024]]
Costello is considered by experts in pop and rock music to be one of the best songwriters of his generation. [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] summarised Costello as the "most evocative, innovative, and gifted songwriter since Bob Dylan, with songs that offer highly personal takes on love and politics".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/elvis-costello-mn0000058549|title=Elvis Costello|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=AllMusic|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref> In 2015, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked him 24th their list of the greatest songwriters of all time, calling him a songwriter of "almost unparalleled versatility".<ref name="Rolling Stone-2015"/> When he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016, the induction announcement said the impact of Costello's songs "far out-distanced their commercial performance".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.songhall.org/news/view/songwriters_hall_of_fame_announces_2016_inductees1|title=Songwriters Hall Of Fame Announces 2016 Inductees|date=2 March 2016|website=Songwriters Hall of Fame|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref>

Costello's debut album, ''My Aim Is True'', is widely considered one of the best debut albums in the history of rock music.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-debut-albums-of-all-time-20130322/my-aim-is-true-19691231|title=100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Times, 21 Elvis Costello|date=22 March 2013|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/happy-40th-birthday-my-aim-is-true-the-best-elvis.html|title=Happy 40th Birthday My Aim Is True: The Best Elvis Costello Performances|last=Salfino|first=Michael|date=5 July 1917|website=Paste|access-date=17 June 2018|archive-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004140723/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/happy-40th-birthday-my-aim-is-true-the-best-elvis.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the album's release, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' called it "one of the most influential albums in the history of rock and punk" and "one of the strongest debut albums in history".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7874035/elvis-costello-my-aim-is-true-anniversary|title=Elvis Costello's 'My Aim Is True' Turns 40: Ranking All the Tracks|last=Goodman|first=William|date=22 July 2017|magazine=Billboard|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref> Although Costello never applied the term "new wave" to his music,<ref name="Doggett-1995"/> Costello's early records helped defined the [[New wave music|new wave]] music genre. AllMusic said, "Costello's early albums changed the face of pop music by harnessing punk's energy to a leaner, more incisive aesthetic that included pop hooks, virtually inventing new wave in the process".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-very-best-of-elvis-costello-and-the-attractions-mw0000122571|title=The Very Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions|website=AllMusic|access-date=17 June 2018}}</ref> In their 2013 list of greatest albums of all time, the ''[[NME]]'' described ''This Year's Model'' as "defining the British new wave".<ref name="Barker2013"/> In their 2009 list of greatest albums of all time, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' said "the keyboard-driven sound of [Costello's 1979 song] 'Accidents Will Happen' helped define New Wave".<ref name="Rolling Stone-2012"/>

Musical artists with little connection to new wave have also claimed influence by Costello. Bruce Springsteen has said that comments Costello made in the press criticising Springsteen's early songs as overly romantic led Springsteen to write darker songs for his 1978 album ''[[Darkness on the Edge of Town]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2010/01/springsteen_joins_costello_for.html|title=Springsteen joins Costello for television Spectacle|last=Lustig|first=Jay|date=18 January 2010|website=NJ.com|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref> [[Thom Yorke]] of [[Radiohead]] called ''Blood & Chocolate'' "the album that made me change the way I thought about recording and writing music [and] lyrics".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Paphides |first=Peter |date=5 November 1997 |title=Radio daze |magazine=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] |location=London}}</ref> [[Liz Phair]], in her appreciation of Costello for [[Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time|''Rolling Stone''{{'s}} 100 Greatest Artists of All Time]], wrote: "I'd pay a great amount of money to audit a course taught by him".<ref name="RS80">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231|title=100 greatest artist, 80 Elvis Costello|last=Phair|first=Liz|date=2 December 2010|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=28 May 2018}}</ref> [[Suzanne Vega]] has called Costello one of the "melodic geniuses" whose music she listens to in order to "stretch my sense of melody".<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.sodajerker.com/episode-49-suzanne-vega/|title=Sodajerker on Songwriting, ep 49. Suzanne Vega|date=27 November 2013|people=Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor, hosts|time=19 minutes|access-date=21 June 2018|medium=podcast}}</ref>

Prominent artists in other fields have claimed influence or inspiration from Costello. Filmmaker and comedian [[Judd Apatow]] has called Costello "a gigantic inspiration to me" and has suggested that he and other comedians are "fanatical" about Costello's music because of the "spirit of standing up for what you believe in and the humor" in it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/music/2013/10/elvis-costello-wise-up-ghosts-burt-bacharach|title=Elvis Costello Talks to Judd Apatow About Wise Up Ghost, His Album with the Roots, and His Musical with Burt Bacharach|last=Apatow|first=Judd|date=28 October 2013|website=VanityFair.com|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref> Satirist and television host Stephen Colbert has described Costello as "probably my favourite rock artist" and said he sees parallels between his own humour and Costello's "wry, sardonic" songs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/24/163547250/stephen-colberts-most-meaningful-musical-moments|title=Stephen Colbert's Most Meaningful Musical Moments|last=NPR Staff|date=24 October 2018|website=NPR|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref> Novelist [[Bret Easton Ellis]] titled his 1985 novel [[Less Than Zero (novel)|''Less Than Zero'']] after a Costello song and its 2010 sequel ''[[Imperial Bedrooms]]'' after a Costello album. Ellis has said Costello was once his "idol".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/bret-easton-ellis-pieces-of-me-773471|title=Bret Easton Ellis in Australia: "It Was Really About Me"|last=Keep|first=Elmo|date=11 August 2010|website=The Awl|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/bret-easton-ellis-pieces-of-me-773471|title=Bret Easton Ellis – Pieces Of Me|date=10 August 2010|website=NME|access-date=21 June 2010}}</ref> Visual artist [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] featured Costello prominently in his 2012 reworking of the artwork he created for the cover of the Beatles' 1967 album ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. Blake said he included people he admired and who had contributed to British culture since he created the original work.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited|title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday|last=Davies|first=Caroline|date=1 April 2012|work=Guardian|access-date=21 June 2018}}</ref>