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But I think a lot of people probably saw it coming, or at least worried that it might happen. Otis Redding’s death had to come as a terrible shock. (The others were killed by murders or plane crashes.) The first posthumous #1 was Otis Redding’s “ (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay,” another virtuosic and bittersweet life-on-the-road song that ends in California. She was the only woman, and she was the only one who died of something that could be described as a long-festering disease. To date, there have been six musicians who went to #1 after dying.

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Joplin departed in October of 1970, 16 days after Jimi Hendrix. And then she died alone in a Hollywood hotel room after shooting up. She travelled the planet, slept with men and women, and tried every drug she could find - though she also went through periods where she tried to get clean. Her voice - ragged, ferocious, force-of-nature powerful - imprinted itself on a whole generation of kids.

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She became a rock star, first singing for Big Brother & The Holding Company and then going solo and leading a series of her own bands. She came home, got clean, then returned to San Francisco and got hooked again. Joplin found her way to San Francisco and got herself hooked on heroin. Joplin started singing - first at local coffeehouses, and then at coffeehouses in Austin, where she was briefly a college student. But she’d discovered old blues records, Bessie Smith records in particular, and through them, she’d found her superpower. This quiet girl had grown up in Port Arthur, Texas, bullied and stultified by the yokels around her. Janis Joplin was a terribly romantic figure, and her life story reads like a myth.











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