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Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

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
Angel
Devil
Hell
Tell
Distorted

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