An overnight success after seven years of plugging away on the London pub-rock circuit, Declan Patrick McManus took on the nom de plume Elvis Costello as a pop-art statement of intent. My Aim Is True was recorded in 1977 six separate four-hour sessions with an all-American session band who would go on to be The News alongside Huey Lewis. Too angry to be new wave - and too clever to be truly punk - My Aim Is True is generally considered to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time.