This is Graham Nash’s 73d birthday. We’ve featured his music now and then, but will begin with one of the first Hollies songs in which he sang lead vocal: “On a Carousel,” recorded at Abbey Road studio in 1967.

Ed Kilgore

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.