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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

Elvis Costello

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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Declan MacManus
Never
Flutters
Knickers
Flicker
Friendship
Passion
Though
Stills
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Flickers

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