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“I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.”

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Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin was an influential American rock singer, known as one of the representatives of rock music in the 1970s. She had a unique musical style and a powerful, sandpaper-throated voice that had a profound impact on musicians of later generations. more

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