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England's Elvis — The New Sensation on the Rock Scene

Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 October 1977

OUT OF nowhere comes a musician with no apparent past who looks like a good bet to become the biggest new sensation on the rock scene this year — Elvis Costello.

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