Elvis Costello
Nick Kent, NME, 27 August 1977
IT'S BEEN a rough old week for Elvis Costello. Last weekend he was right up there in the play lists with his 'Red Shoes' single a tentative third-time-lucky a cosey Top 20 cloister for the album and even the national press getting hot-to-trot with the Costello form for 1977.
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