Legend Credentials:

Let's not mess around here. With a career that spans four decades and a discography that totals 28 studio albums, underestimate Declan McManus at your peril.

The son of a big band leader, Declan took his great-grandmother's maiden name and was performing as DP Costello when he was signed to the now legendary Stiff label in 1977. The Elvis bit came from the other famous Elvis, natch.

Recruiting a backing band, The Attractions, via an ad in the back pages of the Melody Maker and with the daft specs, shiny suits and awkward manner, he quickly became the misfit of punk rock.

Costello's first long-player, the phenomenal 'My Aim Is True', set its creator on a path that finds him regarded as nothing short of a musical maverick and a true legend. It's often said a debut album is a lifetime in the making and is rarely surpassed. With Costello it's rare that each new album doesn’t surpass the last. No mean feat when you've done everything from scoring ballet to killer performances of Bert Bacharach classics.

Cut the man in half, and it says music in neat little minty circle right through his core.

The Original Song:

More boring people than us would tell you that Elvis Costello's dad wrote and performed the now legendary R Whites secret lemonade drinker song for a TV ad in 1973 while a teenage Elvis served up backing vocals. Anyway, from the classic 'This Year's Model' album 1978, 'You Belong To Me' is light years ahead of it's time. If EC appeared today, he'd be on the cover on NME before his label could get a single out.

Classic Clip:

Performing two tracks for TV show Countdown in Holland, Watching The Detectives and You Belong To Me, a charismatic and quick witted Elvis reminds us how little frontmen engage with audiences nowadays. Ever the British gent, he asks the tall Dutch men at the front to step to the side so the girls at the back could get to the front. And then pulls them onto stage with him. Legend.