Meet the Shaggs
Susan Orlean on the legacy of the Shaggs, an eclectic female band from the sixties and seventies.
"Depending on whom you ask, the Shaggs were either the best band of all time or the worst. Frank Zappa is said to have proclaimed that the Shaggs were 'better than the Beatles.'" Orlean traces the strange afterlife of a New Hampshire band that defied explanation.