What Connects Bo and Yves
Bo Diddley, who died today at age 79, helped reshape the sound of popular music worldwide; Yves Saint Laurent, who died yesterday at age 71, helped reshape the definition of fashion worldwide. Otherwise, they couldn’t have been more dissimilar: Bo was outgoing and knew from raucous; Yves was preternaturally neurotic: only Proust could have been his favorite author (and was).
