Johnny Rivers is 72 today. Here he is a half-century ago on American Bandstand lip-synching his first big hit, a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Memphis.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
More by Ed Kilgore