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Elvis Costello has been awarded an O.B.E. – the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire – for his contributions to music as part of the annual Queen’s Birthday Honours List. “I am happy to accept this very surprising honour,” Costello wrote in a long statement Friday. …

Elvis Costello would like you to know that Look Now, his first album in five years, is not “a little-box-with-people-going-mad-in-it kind of rock and roll record,” the kind where you“put the red light on play and hope to get the magical take.” It is, instead, what he calls an “uptown …