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The Frustrations of Janis Joplin

Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 October 1970

FIDGETING NERVOUSLY, singer Janis Joplin edged toward the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival mike, squinted up at a slim break in the fog overhead, reared back and bellowed out, "Look-down-on-me."

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