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How do we manage it? How does ''Thrills'' keep coming up with these great competitions and how do we get ourselves into a scrape like the one surrounding last week's ''Thrills'' competition in which we offered the original Elvis Costello demo tape as first prize in our ''NME''/Oval Records comp, where five copies of Oval's ''Honky Tonk Demos'' albums were also up for grabs? | How do we manage it? How does ''Thrills'' keep coming up with these great competitions and how do we get ourselves into a scrape like the one surrounding [[New Musical Express, November 24, 1979|last week]]'s ''Thrills'' competition in which we offered the original Elvis Costello demo tape as first prize in our ''NME''/Oval Records comp, where five copies of Oval's ''Honky Tonk Demos'' albums were also up for grabs? | ||
Following the appearance of the competition ''NME'' and Oval received a call from Elvis himself and manager Jake Riviera to tell us that no, they didn't think it was such a good idea after all. | Following the appearance of the competition ''NME'' and Oval received a call from Elvis himself and manager Jake Riviera to tell us that no, they didn't think it was such a good idea after all. |