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Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Get Happy!!

Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, May 1980

The first draft of this review, written on the basis of an American pressing, had to be discarded when an English copy arrived. Sound quality on the US version is so thoroughly inferior that the music is largely obscured, making fair appraisal impossible.

Total word count of piece: 879

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