For the Stars

Studio album by Elvis Costello and Anne Sofie von Otter

Released

April 10, 2001

Recorded

September 23, 2000-January 21, 2001

Genre

Vocal

Elvis Costello chronology

The Sweetest Punch
(1999)

For the Stars
(2001)

The Very Best of Elvis Costello
(2001)

For the Stars is a 2001 album by Elvis Costello and Anne Sofie von Otter.

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Track listing

Title:

No Wonder
Baby Plays Around
Go Leave
Rope
Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
Broken Bicycles/Junk
The Other Woman
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Green Song
April After All
You Still Believe in Me
I Want to Vanish
For No One
Shamed Into Love
Just a Curio
This House Is Empty Now
Take It With Me
For the Stars

Time:

3:37

3:13

2:50

3:57

3:12

4:06

3:36

5:03

4:38

2:52

3:09

2:41

2:00

3:47

4:18

4:39

3:17

2:46

Composer:

Elvis Costello

Cait O'Riordan; Declan MacManus

Kate McGarrigle

Elvis Costello; Fleshquartet

Brian Wilson; Tony Asher

Paul McCartney; Tom Waits

Jessie Mae Robinson

Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus

Elvis Costello; Svante Henryson

Ron Sexsmith

Brian Wilson; Tony Asher

Elvis Costello

John Lennon; Paul McCartney

Declan MacManus; Rubén Blades

Elvis Costello; Fleshquartet

Burt Bacharach; Elvis Costello

Kathleen Brennan; Tom Waits

Elvis Costello

v t e Elvis Costello

The Imposters: Steve Nieve Pete Thomas Davey Faragher The Attractions: Steve Nieve Bruce Thomas Pete Thomas

Studio albums	My Aim Is True This Year's Model Armed Forces Get Happy!! Trust Almost Blue Imperial Bedroom Punch the Clock Goodbye Cruel World King of America Blood & Chocolate Spike Mighty Like a Rose Brutal Youth Kojak Variety All This Useless Beauty When I Was Cruel North The Delivery Man Momofuku Secret, Profane & Sugarcane National Ransom

Live albums	Live at the El Mocambo Deep Dead Blue with Bill Frisell Costello & Nieve My Flame Burns Blue with Metropole Orkest Live at Hollywood High

Collaborations	The Juliet Letters with The Brodsky Quartet Painted from Memory with Burt Bacharach For the Stars with Anne Sofie von Otter The River in Reverse with Allen Toussaint

Singles	"Less Than Zero" "Alison" "Red Shoes" "Watching the Detectives" "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" "Pump It Up" "Radio Radio" "Oliver's Army" "Accidents Will Happen" "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down" "High Fidelity" "New Amsterdam" "Clubland" "From a Whisper to a Scream" "Watch Your Step" "A Good Year for the Roses" "Sweet Dreams" "I'm Your Toy" "You Little Fool" "Man Out of Time" "From Head to Toe" "Party Party" "Pills and Soap" (as The Imposter) "Everyday I Write the Book" "Let Them All Talk" "Peace in Our Time" (as The Imposter) "I Wanna Be Loved" / "Turning the Town Red" "The Only Flame in Town" "Green Shirt" "The People's Limousine" (as The Coward Brothers) "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" "Seven-Day Weekend" with Jimmy Cliff "Lovable" "Tokyo Storm Warning" "I Want You" "Blue Chair" "A Town Called Big Nothing" (as The MacManus Gang) "Veronica" "Baby Plays Around" "...This Town..." "The Other Side of Summer" "So Like Candy" "Jacksons, Monk & Rowe" with The Brodsky Quartet "Sulky Girl" "13 Steps Lead Down" "You Tripped at Every Step" "London's Brilliant Parade" "It's Time" "Little Atoms" "The Other End of the Telescope" "Distorted Angel" "All This Useless Beauty" "You Bowed Down" "Toledo" with Burt Bacharach "She" "Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)" "45" "Still" "Monkey to Man" "She's Pulling Out the Pin" "Brilliant Mistake" "Who Are These People?" with Burt Bacharach "Bedlam" "Complicated Shadows" "My All Time Doll"

Classical works	Il Sogno performed by London Symphony Orchestra

Scores	G.B.H. with Richard Harvey Jake's Progress with Richard Harvey

Collaborations	Terror + Magnificence by John Harle The Sweetest Punch by Bill Frisell Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland

Compilations	Taking Liberties Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers The Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions Out of Our Idiot Girls Girls Girls 2½ Years The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977–86 Extreme Honey The Very Best of Elvis Costello Cruel Smile Singles, Volume 1 Singles, Volume 2 Singles, Volume 3 Rock and Roll Music The Best of Elvis Costello: The First Ten Years

Related articles	Discography Stiff Records / Nick Lowe Cait O'Riordan T-Bone Burnett Diana Krall

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For the Stars

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