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June 5, 1978

The New Yorker cover for June 5, 1978

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Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse—II

George W. S. Trow

Part 2 of George W. S. Trow’s 1978 Profile of the founder of Atlantic Records, “the most arresting figure in the American music business.”