Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (Columbia)
Jeffrey Morgan, Stage Life, February 1978
LIKE IT OR NOT, youd better watch out 'cause talent will out, which is exactly why youre hearing so much about Elvis Costello these days. Hes not a punk rocker and, no, he has nothing to do with the New Wave either. To paraphrase Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln, hes just plain Elvis Costello: a young man whose principal interest just happen to be subtle revenge and frustration.
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