To the general public, Elvis Costello is just some punky Buddy Holly look-alike who appears occasionally in People magazine, but hardly ever, ever, on the radio. A cult figure.
To fans of "new music" — new Wave, punk, whatever you want to call the music that came attached to the punk revolt of 1977 — he is the ambitious man who showed that a punk band could play well, write melodic songs and incorporate traditional forms from country music to Jazz ballads into rock and not lose...
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