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23.4.02

Elvis Costello


I’d just like to give a small hip, hip, hooray to Elvis Costello, who, rather surprisingly, scored the highest new entry in the album charts on Sunday with ‘When I Was Cruel’. Okay, so there wasn’t anything of any significance released last week, and number 17, one place higher than Petula Clark’s new entry, isn’t setting the world on fire, but there’s life in the old dog yet. I only own two Elvis Costello albums; Mighty Like A Rose and Blood & Chocolate, but this new album sounds like it might be a real return to form, even if the splendidly-named single ‘Tear Off Your Own Head’ could only manage one chart week at #58 before dribbling out again.

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