“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”

— Janis Joplin

On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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American singer and songwriter 1943–1970

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