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Article: BIG OPPORTUNITY: ELVIS COSTELLO
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- Santa Fe Reporter
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- October 8, 2002
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When My Aim Is True was released in 1977, many listeners didn't know what to make of Elvis Costello, the acid-tongued geek with the horn-rimmed glasses and splay-legged stance. The critics, however, did: Here was an intelligent and angry young man whose command of the entire scope of pop music was clear, right from the start. Any doubts as to how "true" Costello's aim was were quieted when he released his breakthrough sophomore album, This Year's Model, only months after My Aim Is True. Now in the company of his unbeatable backup band, The Attractions, Costello's talent really took flight, delivering a taut, pounding, Rolling Stones-like indictment of sex, drugs, corporate fascism and show ...