Music
April, 1998
RockOn Songs From the Capeman (Warner Bros.), Paul Simon chooses for his subject Salvador Agron, a 16-year-old street thug who murdered two people in 1959. Agron dressed like a rock-and-roll outlaw--hence the name Capeman--and was demonized in the press. But he had the good fortune to live in a political era when death sentences were occasionally commuted on the grounds that the perpetrator had been abused as a child. Simon uses the emotional power of music to make Agron understandable. The song...
