In the pilot for an absurd, pun-filled series called “Hip Pocket Musicals,” which was pitched to PBS but never aired, LuPone steals socks and haunts an ex-lover in a laundromat.
Walker creates music for girls and women who have been made to feel that they’re too much—too loud, too bold, too sexy—and that such excess makes them unlovable.
The album, now reissued in a super-deluxe edition on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, was the Beatles’ last word—the final recordings by the most popular and influential artists of the nineteen-sixties.