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Janis Ian: Society's Child Grows Up

Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 12 June 1976

ONE JOURNALIST WHO knew Janis Ian in 1969 thought she was the snottiest kid he'd ever met, "the cocky, pretentious product of an 'old Lefty' political New York upbringing gone wild." She was 18.

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