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Release Date
1 February 1986
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Length
15 tracks
King of America is the tenth studio album by Elvis Costello. It was credited to "The Costello Show featuring the Attractions and Confederates" in the UK and Europe, and to "The Costello Show featuring Elvis Costello" in North America. Released on 21 February 1986, it peaked at No. 11 on the UK album chart and No. 39 on the Billboard 200. In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for the year's best albums, King of America finished at No. 2, and it was also selected as one of Rolling Stone magazine's top twenty albums of the year.
Costello's usual backing musicians the Attractions appear on only one track, "Suit of Lights", but returned to record in full his next album Blood & Chocolate.
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