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August 2, 2022

JANIS JOPLIN - 4/4 : The Death 傳 來 噩 耗


 
JANIS JOPLIN (1943-1970) 
曾經與不少樂隊和樂手合作, 亦曾撰寫過不少歌曲; 她最後演繹的歌曲是1970年十月一日完成錄音的 "Mercedes Benz", 與及 Kris Kristofferson 撰寫的 "Me and Bobby McGee", 两曲面世後同樣銷量驚人, 獲樂壇與樂迷的好評如潮, 認為她將會主宰整個美國流行樂壇。
 


Me and Bobby McGee 1970


"Mercedes Benz" - 1970
Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends.
So oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz

Oh lord won't you buy me a color TV.
Dialing for dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until 3.
So oh lord won't you buy me a color TV.

Oh lord won't you buy me a night on the town.
I'm counting on you lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round.
Oh lord won't you buy me a night on the town.
Everybody....

Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. 
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends. 
So oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

"MERCEDES BENZ"
是她正在如日方中的最後作品, 創作歌手 Bobby Womack 稱這是一次 Janis 乘坐他的 Mercedes 汔車之後所得的靈感而寫成; 及後此曲曾被用在一些電視廣告上, 因而引起當年很多青年樂迷和 "Hippies 嬉皮士" 不滿, 聲稱 Janis 被利用為趨向物質主義, 與鼓勵人們過度銷費, 而一些媒體對她亦有正反不同的批評, 她漸漸覺得是活在一個男性主導的樂壇, 個人作風卻要承受各種輿論和批評, 壓力之大實難以應付。
 
1970年九月三十曰, 新歌面世前接受 The Village Voice 電台節目主持 Howard Smith 的訪問, Janis 承認受到很大壓力, 惟恐不被樂壇接受 ....

"That was a pretty heavy time for me".........
"It was really important, you know,
whether people were going to accept me or not"


主因是她要在酒精和毒品之中掙扎, 而實際上已經墮入 "Heroin 海洛英" 和 "Amphetamine 安非他名" 的深淵, 至不能自拔的精神狀態 ....

受訪完畢, 她回到母校 Thomas Jefferson High School 參加舊生敍會之後, 並預定十月四日返回 Los Angeles 洛杉磯, 準備錄製一首由自己撰寫的歌曲 "Buried Alive in The Blues", 但是當天早上被發現倒斃在下榻的 Landmark Hotel 房間內, 有服用過量毒品的跡象。

"Buried Alive in The Blues 埋藏在藍調中" 一曲成讖 ?
此曲的音樂聲軌早已經收錄好, 衹等待 Janis 前往荷里活的 Columbia Studio 把歌唱加錄在其中, 但因服用過量 "Heroin 海洛英" 而猝死在酒店房間內, 終没法完成。三個月後, 唱片公司為悼念她, 把她的最後遺作雖然祇有音樂錄音聲道的版本, 仍然與一些舊有歌曲同收錄在 "PEARL" 這張專輯唱片中....

 
PEARL - Janis Joplin 1971
1. "Move Over"  00:00 
2. "Cry Baby"   03:43 
3. "A Woman Left Lonely"  07:42 
4. "Half Moon"  11:11 
5. "Buried Alive in the Blues"  15:05 
6. "My Baby"  17:33 
7. "Me and Bobby McGee"  21:19 
8. "Mercedes Benz"  25:49 
9. "Trust Me"  27:38

明珠的歿世: "PEARL"是她的昵稱,
她沙啞的唱腔, 並沒有被埋於黃土, 
至今仍長在樂迷的心坎裡 ....

BURIED ALIVE IN THE BLUES
All caught up in a landslide, bad luck
Pressing in from all sides
Just got knocked off of my easy ride,
Buried alive in the blues

Sunday morning everybody's in bed, I'm
On the street, I'm talking out of my head,
This dumb brick wall ain't heard a word
That I've said, I'm buried alive in the blues

I'm buried alive, oh yeah, in the blues
I'm buried alive, somebody help me, in the blues

I beg for mercy, I pray for rain,
I can't be the one to accept all this blame,
Something here's trying to pollute my brain,
I' buried alive in the blues.

It's real hard you know, it's real hard being buried alive
It's real hard being buried alive
When you're buried alive they walk right on by you.
When you're buried alive they never care about you.
When you're buried alive, oh, you reach out for somebody,
And when you're buried alive you get can't seem to press on through
Being buried alive is a bad condition; it's a real weird situation
Being buried alive in the blues, it's a real weird situation
Being buried, being buried
Being buried, being buried
Being buried alive in the blues,
It's a real weird situation.
Oh, yeah

Joplin's Porsche 356C in "Summer of Love – Art of the Psychedelic Era" 
At the Whitney Museum in New York City.




Joplin's house at 122 Lyon Street in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, California. She lived there in the 1960s with her boyfriend Country Joe McDonald.

Photo cited: wikipedia





Janis Joplin sculpture (copper, sheet, 62cm) in Budapest's Ferenc Erkel Grade School, Hungary, sculptor: László Szlávics, Jr.

Photo cited - wikipedia


 
1995 追頒 "Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" 搖滾樂殿堂名人榜

2005 "THE GRAMMY" 追頒終生成就獎 "Lifetime Achievement Award"

2014 "The U.S. Postal Service" 印製一套以 Janis Joplin 人像的郵票, 
這類型郵票是特别為紀念當今最偉大的搖滾樂歌手, 對樂壇貢獻的致意
 
JANIS JOPLIN 1943-1970