A teen cop, a dead rock star, and a 1960s novelty hit

A teen cop, a dead rock star, and a 1960s novelty hit

You can learn a lot about somebody by asking them what the word ‘Xanadu’ means to them. Will they talk about its actual historical significance as the capital of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, or about its famed reference in the 18th-century poem ‘Kubla Khan’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or Orson Welles’ clever use of its name for the fortress-like estate of the title character in Citizen Kane? It could be any of those or all three, but th…