"‘I wanted to try cocaine, but Jimi was against it’: Janis Ian on her tough, starlit life in music Hendrix and Janis Joplin warned her off drugs, she sang for James Brown and Salvador Dalí offered to paint her. Janis Ian’s confessional folk-pop is still sensational – so why is she retiring from recording?" Sarfraz Manzoor
Her opening is breathtaking:
"I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired..."
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