The Fab One
One of Liverpool’s finest exports to America died on July 14th, aged 65
AROUND the time that Michael Elliott, then a Britain correspondent at this newspaper, was steeped in an analysis of London’s revival—published in January 1986—Prince Charles came for lunch at The Economist. Where, the prince asked the journalists, were Britain’s entrepreneurial industries of the kind America nurtured at MIT? “There,” said Mike, with a sweep of his arm towards the panorama of London behind him. “In Covent Garden, Sir, in music, in arts, in advertising. That’s our MIT.”
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The Fab One”
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