Elvis Costello: Costello Beats Anaesthesia
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979
ELVIS COSTELLO spun the discs for a couple of hours on Radio One's Star Special last week, and the result was the kind of radio show I used to dream about in the early Seventies.
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