It’s too late to influence her legacy or her reputation.
Everyone who enjoyed that kind of music back then has moved on. Besides, even as the kid I was then, I could presume that ‘choked on a sandwich’ was just another way of saying she died from the effects of either being as high as a kite or drunk as a skunk.
We had already seen the deaths of several members of “The 27 Club”, which refers to celebrities, mostly musicians who died at the age of 27.
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison and other less famous ones.
Absolutely hit the nail on the head. I heard it on the radio the min she was known to have died and knew right away it was, as you said, “ ‘choked on a sandwich’ was just another way of saying she died from the effects of either being as high as a kite or drunk as a skunk”.
We all did.
It was unfair to her. I think she would be hurt by that. She wanted so bad to escape that image.