No, We Didn’t Call Him ‘Mr. Loaf.’ (Mostly.)
Matt StevensReporting from Brooklyn 🦇
The headline of that Times review, written presumably with the lead in mind, was: “Is He Called Just Plain Meat Or Should It Be Mr. Loaf?”
But that headline was tongue-in-cheek — a joke, a one-off, Merrill Perlman, a top editor on what was then our copy desks, wrote in 2007.
“In other words,” she wrote, “we didn’t mean it.”
Ask the Editors: Merrill Perlman
Source: Music - nytimes.com
