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Elvis Costello: Elvis' Armed Forces

Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 1979

ELVIS COSTELLO is Superman's fantasy of what Clark Kent should have been. He is Buddy Holly reincarnated as an axe-murderer. He is a nasty Woody Allen with a Fender guitar.

Total word count of piece: 773

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