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Thirty-five years ago, or thereabouts, a skinny kid with glasses gave himself the name Elvis Costello and started playing rock and roll in British pubs.
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Thirty-five years ago, or thereabouts, a skinny kid with glasses gave himself the name Elvis Costello and started playing rock and roll in British pubs.
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Thirty-five years ago, or thereabouts, a skinny kid with glasses gave himself the name Elvis Costello and started playing rock and roll in British pubs.
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In his 33-year career making music under the moniker Elvis Costello (real name: Declan Patrick MacManus), Costello has proven himself as one of the most prolific and erudite songwriters in popular music.
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And it made me want to paraphrase Elvis Costello: What's so funny about people who care about peace, love and understanding?
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The acerbic singer and songwriter had recently taken the stage name Elvis Costello and wowed audiences and music critics with "My Aim Is True," a debut built around a raw, stripped-down sound provided by Clover and power-packed songs filled with biting lyrics that earned Costello the sobriquet of the "angry young man" of the late-'70s new wave rock movement.
Home - BostonHerald.com Randy Lewis 2010
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The acerbic singer and songwriter had recently taken the stage name Elvis Costello and wowed audiences and music critics with "My Aim Is True," a debut built around a raw, stripped-down sound provided by Clover and power-packed songs filled with biting lyrics that earned Costello the sobriquet of the "angry young man" of the late-'70s new wave rock movement.
Home - BostonHerald.com Randy Lewis 2010
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That's what I'd call Elvis Costello's new one-hour weekly show,
Expecting Rain 2009
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The ceremony itself – hosted by Hollywood stars Anne Hathaway and Denzel Washington and featuring musicians such as Elvis Costello – will provide a stirring commentary on the Chinese democracy movement.
Chinese dissident plans empty chair protest for Nobel peace prize ceremony Paul Harris in New York 2010
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The soundtrack, which I just picked up, features some music that's commonly available, but some other songs that haven't made it onto albums in the US, such as Elvis Costello's cover of Beautiful.
Is There A Doctor in the House? Andrew 2007
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