'A punk point of view reduced to a dead stare': Elvis Costello in 1979 - Redferns The matter was settled one evening in the flat in a tower block he shared with his young wife and their toddler son.

Elvis Costello's 1979 single Oliver's Army, a UK number two single for the singer-songwriter, is, by some distance, his second-most streamed song on Spotify, bettered only by Pump It Up, from 1978's ...