Frasi di Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Data di nascita: 19. Gennaio 1943
Data di morte: 4. Ottobre 1970
Altri nomi: Janis Joplinová
Janis Lyn Joplin è stata una cantante statunitense.
Divenne nota verso la fine degli anni sessanta come cantante del gruppo Big Brother and the Holding Company, e successivamente per i suoi lavori da solista. La sua carriera continuò fino alla morte per overdose all'età di 27 anni. La rivista statunitense Rolling Stone la pone al 46º posto della lista dei 100 artisti più importanti della storia e al 28º della classifica del 2008 dei 100 cantanti più importanti di tutti i tempi.
Riconosciuta e ricordata per l'intensità delle sue interpretazioni, nel 1995 è stata inserita nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame e nel 2005 è stata insignita del Grammy Award alla carriera postumo. Wikipedia
Frasi Janis Joplin
"Me and Bobby McGee" another of her greatest hits, the song was actually written by Kris Kristofferson, and first released as sung by Roger Miller
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Contesto: Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free...
And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues.
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
"Piece of My Heart" (1968) Though this song became well known as one of her greatest hits, it was actually written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
Live performance in Germany (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG2gYE5KOs
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„You know you got it if it makes you feel good.“
"Piece of My Heart" (1968) written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
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„Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.“
On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
"Work me, Lord", live at Woodstock (1969)
"Work Me, Lord", from her album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969) was written by her bandmate Nick Gravenites, whom she credits at the start of her famous performance of the song at the Woodstock Music Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsDFbwMCTKY, as well as others, such as a live performance in Stockholm (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-irXmqIzGA
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"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
"Me and Bobby McGee" another of her greatest hits, the song was actually written by Kris Kristofferson, and first released as sung by Roger Miller
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