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Elvis Costello: One Itchy trigger

David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 22 February 1979

ELVIS COSTELLO likes to keep his past a mystery. This attitude has led fact-starved journalists to guess that he was once everything from an escaped mental patient to a one-time member of the Sex Pistols. The truth is nothing so exciting.

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