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Janis Joplin: Pearl/Big Brother and the Holding Company: Be A Brother (CBS)

Charlie Gillett, Cream, May 1971

THEY ALL AGREED, the people who went to see her on stage, that Janis had something special. The effect of her personality didn’t come over so well on records, but still they were worth having; they helped to evoke memories of what she had been like.

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