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The ashes of San Francisco-based rock-blues vocalist Janis Joplin are scattered at sea off the Marin County coastline in California, USA.Full article:
Country Joe McDonald : On the one hand people wanted her to be a sex symbol and on the other hand she wasn’t the conventional sex symbol in any kind of way. Her bone structure was wrong, the way she acted was wrong. . . they wanted her to be Billie Holiday and she wasn’t Billie Holiday at all because Billie Holiday was very very feminine and Janis wasn’t at all. . . . Yet, she was a real woman and people kept treating her like one of the guys.
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