In his monumental investigative piece from 1995, a longtime New Yorker contributor told Ledbetter, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”
Fans in France and the rest of Europe have known for decades what Bruce Springsteen told America back in the day: Murphy wrote and performed hit songs, “They just didn’t end up on the Hit Parade.”
With Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull on tour in 2023, we turn to an archive piece from their Golden Anniversary jaunt, in which we pointed out that the Voice never much liked the lads from England. Is it time to give the old sod on the park bench a break?
