“Face it,” challenges Eleganzophobe John Leavy of Astoria, New York, “people who’ll say they like Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska must lie about other things too.

“I’ll give you an example of why I hold your profession in contempt,” he writes, betraying a shocking misperception of Eleganza as rock, rather than social, criticism. He goes on to note that in his New York Times review of the videotape Asia In Asia, Stephen Holden first wrongly identified the group’s singer as John Wetton (rather than the unmistakably tubbier Greg Lake), and then described the song “Don’t Cry” as one of the concert’s high points—even though the group never played it!