Costello Album

The Costello Album, also The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration, is a Paul McCartney album that includes work from his 1987–88 songwriting collaboration with Elvis Costello. The album includes demo recordings made by Paul and Elvis in the throes of their collaboration, other demos of some songs by Costello and McCartney individually, live performances by Costello, and two duo live performances taken from a 1995 benefit concert at the Royal College of Music.[1] A planned album credited to both was abandoned, initial work-ups appearing in the 2017 deluxe edition reissue to McCartney's Flowers in the Dirt. These recordings were unknown to the public until 1998 when they surfaced as an unofficial compact disc titled The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration.[2][3]

The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration (Costello Album)
Live album by Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello
Released	Unofficially, in 1998
Recorded	1987–1996
Studio	(1987) The Mill, Sussex, England (1989) Burbank, CA (1995) London, England (1996) Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Rock
Length	55:57
Label	Vigotone
Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello Collaborative chronology
All This Useless Beauty (1996) The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration (Costello Album) (1998)

Studio recordings of many of these songs have appeared officially on albums by either McCartney or Costello. "Back on My Feet" was the first collaboration to be released officially, as a B-side to McCartney's 1987 single "Once Upon a Long Ago."[4] McCartney went on to release his versions of "My Brave Face," "You Want Her Too," "Don't Be Careless Love," and "That Day Is Done" on Flowers in the Dirt in 1989, followed by "Mistress and Maid" and "The Lovers That Never Were" on Off the Ground in 1993. Costello issued his versions of "Veronica" and "Pads, Paws, and Claws" on Spike in 1989, "So Like Candy" and "Playboy to a Man" on Mighty Like a Rose in 1991, and "Shallow Grave" on All This Useless Beauty in 1996. "My Brave Face" and "Veronica" are, respectively, McCartney's and Costello's last Top 40 hit singles in the United States. Demos of these songs have appeared as bonus tracks to the above albums, on bonus discs to the Costello Rhino reissues, and on the bonus discs to the 2017 reissue of Flowers in the Dirt.

Track listings

All tracks are written by Declan MacManus and Paul McCartney except where noted.

Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello demos[5][6][7]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Lovers That Never Were"
2.	"Twenty-Five Fingers"
3.	"Tommy's Coming Home"
4.	"So Like Candy"
5.	"You Want Her Too"
6.	"Playboy to a Man"
7.	"Don't Be Careless Love"
8.	"My Brave Face"

Elvis Costello demo

No.	Title	Length
9.	"Veronica" (Declan MacManus, Paul McCartney, Cait O'Riordan)

Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello live

No.	Title	Length
10.	"One After 909" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
11.	"Mistress and Maid"

Elvis Costello live

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Pads, Paws, and Claws"
13.	"You Want Her Too"
14.	"Shallow Grave"

Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello demo

No.	Title	Length
15.	"My Brave Face"

Paul McCartney demos

No.	Title	Length
16.	"That Day Is Done"
17.	"Back on My Feet"

Elvis Costello demos

No.	Title	Length
18.	"Step Inside Love" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
19.	"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

Sources

1. "DAY FIFTEEN: THE McCARTNEY/MacMANUS DEMOS – Connor Ratliff". Connor Ratliff. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
2. "Paul McCartney And Elvis Costello – The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
3. "The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration – Paul McCartney | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
4. https://www.spin.com/2017/05/paul-mccartney-elvis-costello-back-on-my-feet-unreleased-version-listen/
5. "Paul McCartney And Elvis Costello – The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration". Discogs. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
6. "The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration – Paul McCartney – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
7. "Bootleg: The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration – The Elvis Costello Wiki". www.elviscostello.info. Retrieved 8 July 2017.