‘After seeing Aretha Franklin you’re never the same again’: Elvis Costello’s honest playlist

He could request Frank Sinatra before he could speak, and recites Noel Coward lyrics, but what does the singer-songwriter enjoy behind closed doors?

The first song I remember hearing
It's a family legend that even before I was forming sentences, I knew how to request I've Got You Under My Skin sung by Frank Sinatra on the record player. Of course I'm biased, but my wife [jazz musician Diana Krall] does the other, definitive version.

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