The junkie. Really? Geez, it must be nice to live a perfect life with no vices and no sins.
She lived life fast and hard and flamed out like a shooting star but left a hell of mark in the process. Her rendition is still current, Miller’s has long been forgotten.
“The junkie. Really? Geez, it must be nice to live a perfect life with no vices and no sins.”
Miller was no Saint. Joined the military to avoid jail. Alcoholic, druggie and tobacco addict. Dead at 56.
No, I have my own sins and vices, of course. Not seeing in my comments any proclamation that I “live a perfect life.’
But I am pretty sure that the record shows Joplin was an addict, and that is how she died, right?
You are certainly entitled to your opinion about her singing, and I am entitled to mine.