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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
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England
Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Declan MacManus
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I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
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