Question: What is the birthdate of this English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, who began his career in the early 1970s, and whose seventeenth studio album was All This Useless Beauty?
Sentence (from "Elvis Costello"): His third album, "Armed Forces", was released in 1979, and features his highest-charting single "Oliver's Army" (number 2 in the UK).
Relevant evidence: No