Daylight Video

by Ed Kilgore
Politics

Fifty-eight years ago tonight, Ed Sullivan introduced a musical artist for what he expected would be a cover of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons.” Instead he got: “Bo Diddley.”

Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore, a Monthly contributing editor, is a columnist for the Daily Intelligencer, New York magazine’s politics blog, and the managing editor for the Democratic Strategist.