I’m happy to defer to you on that. I’d have to look into the question a lot more than I have or intend to do before I’d have much of a view on whom King would have been referring to. I do rather like Phil Ochs, foolish, ivory-towered, and quite out of touch as he may have been. youtu.be/oJRJdrcrX3M
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