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Elvis Costello: Can I Be Frank…?

Mark Sinker, The Wire, September 1992

2005 note: The original manuscript began and ended with some kind of lyrical gibberish swansong for the song as a music-form (in the age of techno and the loopbeat).

Total word count of piece: 3623

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