# Elvis Costello marks album’s 49th anniversary with five-disc reissue

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/elvis-costello-to-celebrate-49th-anniversary-of-my-aim-is-true-with-five-disc-box-set/
- Published: 2026-08-05T05:32:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-05T11:47:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Rolling Stone
- Original article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-my-aim-is-true-49th-anniversary-box-set-1235603330/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Costello releases five-disc My Aim Is True box set on 2 October
- Contains 104 tracks, including 52 previously unreleased recordings
- Spans remastered album, demos, live cuts and a 2007 reunion show

## Summary

Elvis Costello has marked the approaching 50th anniversary of his 1977 debut album My Aim Is True with a five-disc box set, My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition), released on 2 October. The collection compiles 104 tracks, 52 previously unreleased, spanning a newly remastered edition of the original record alongside demos, live recordings and rare session material from Costello's earliest years as an artist, offering fans an unusually detailed portrait of the period that launched his career.

The set opens with a remaster merging the UK and US track listings, followed by The Blue Print, 17 pre-album recordings from 1975-76 including home tapes and a newly unearthed early version of "Radio Radio" called "Radio Soul". A third disc, The Stranger in the House, gathers surviving demos and outtakes, the fourth, Becoming the Attractions, features live material from his first shows with the Attractions, and the set closes with Covered in Clover, a previously unreleased 2007 reunion performance with Clover, the band that backed him in the studio on the original album. Costello and the Imposters continue touring through late September, with new reflections from Costello and producer Nick Lowe featured in the set's liner notes.

## Coverage

- [Rolling Stone: Elvis Costello marks album’s 49th anniversary with five-disc reissue](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elvis-costello-my-aim-is-true-49th-anniversary-box-set-1235603330/)
- [Consequence: Elvis Costello Announces My Aim Is True 49th Anniversary Reissue](https://consequence.net/2026/08/elvis-costello-my-aim-is-true-reissue-49th-anniversary-box-set/)

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