"Then she first heard the original Big Mama Thornton version of Hound Dog and that completely opened her head up to a different kind of singing. The following day, the Associated Press circulated this news, and the August 9 edition of The New York Times carried it. "[14] In May 1970, after performing under the name Main Squeeze at a Hell's Angels event, the renamed Full Tilt Boogie Band began a nationwide tour. [131] Posthumous releases have included previously unreleased studio and live material.[132]. "[79], Joplin's last public performance with the Full Tilt Boogie Band took place on August 12, 1970, at the Harvard Stadium in Boston. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. He couldn't find her, so he went for her lover. But Janis Joplin had made up her mind that she was going to live life her way . Read about our approach to external linking. . She had dalliances with Peter Coyote and Kris Kristofferson, whose "Me and Bobby . She again appeared with Big Brother on April 12 at Winterland, where she and Big Brother were reported to be in excellent form. Two songs from the second of Big Brother's two sets at Monterey, which they played on Sunday, were filmed (their first set, which was on Saturday, was not filmed, though it was audio-recorded). "[36], Niehaus and Joplin were photographed by the press at Rio Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. In 15 years performing as Janis Joplin, the singer has needed steroid injections only once, required to help calm incredibly swollen vocal cords. J anis Joplin was born in 1943 and grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. On Saturday afternoon, when she and the band were flown by helicopter with the pregnant Joan Baez and Baez's mother from a nearby motel to the festival site and Joplin saw the enormous crowd, she instantly became extremely nervous and giddy. This is the way she came across in a huge, high-ceilinged roller skating rink without any acoustics but, thankfully a good enough sound system behind her. In November 2009, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum honored her as part of its annual American Music Masters Series;[120] among the artifacts at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum exhibition are Joplin's scarf and necklaces, her psychedelically painted 1965 Porsche 356 Cabriolet and a sheet of LSD blotting paper designed by Robert Crumb, designer of the Cheap Thrills cover. Echols says as a singer Joplin had extraordinary talent. Kyle Moss. [24] "Janis went nuts! According to Kim Chappell, a close friend of Caserta and Joplin, Caserta's book angered the Los Angeles heroin dealer whom she had described in detail in her book, including the make and model of his car. Her biographer Alice Echols agrees but thinks there are other important influences too. Kristofferson knew Joplin; they'd actually had a brief fling . [14], Prior to beginning a summer tour with Full Tilt Boogie, she performed in a reunion with Big Brother at the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, on April 4, 1970. To be a high school beatnik in 1960 in Port Arthur, Tex. "Mercedes Benz" is certified gold in the US. My mother says, "Why do you have to sing so loud?" She says, "You have such a pretty voice, Janis." She doesn't understand. [44] When Columbia Records took over the band's contract and re-released the album, they included "Coo Coo" and "The Last Time", and put "featuring Janis Joplin" on the cover. She was accompanied on vacation there by her friend Linda Gravenites (wife of songwriter Nick Gravenites), who had designed Janis's stage costumes from 1967 to 1969. Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGeeMake a different choice. [118], In 1992, the first major biography of Joplin in two decades, Love, Janis, authored by her younger sister Laura Joplin, was published. songs; Song Name Comments; A Woman Left Lonely: 3: All Is Loneliness: 0: [31] Time magazine called Joplin "probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement", and Richard Goldstein wrote for the May 1968 issue of Vogue magazine that Joplin was "the most staggering leading woman in rockshe slinks like tar, scowls like warclutching the knees of a final stanza, begging it not to leave. Janis Joplin can sing the chic off any listener."[16]. A Serge Gainsbourg-penned French language song by English singer Jane Birkin, "Ex fan des sixties" (1978), references Joplin along with other disappeared "idols" such as Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Marc Bolan. When Joplin finally reached the stage at approximately 2:00a.m. Sunday, she was "three sheets to the wind", according to biographer Alice Echols. But as soon as the music of Hard to Handle began, . Faced with a ten-hour wait after arriving at the backstage area, Joplin spent some of that time shooting heroin and drinking alcohol[17][23] with Caserta in a tent. [68], Still photographs in color show Joplin backstage with Grace Slick the day after Joplin's performance, wherein Joplin appears to be very happy. All three musicians performed at the two biggest rock festivals of the 1960s; Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock. She's been gone 50 years but I think she had a big influence on male and female performers.". [24] Joplin had been at home in Larkspur, California when she had received a long-distance phone call with an explanation of the need to finance a gravestone for Bessie Smith, whom Joplin had frequently cited as a musical influence. She was as hard core as Joplin was when it came to booze and drugs, although I don't think she ever became a heroin addict. "Hard to Handle" was a hit for the Black Crowes in 1990, though it was originally written by Otis Redding, Al Bell and Allen Jones in 1968. [111] Another trademark was her flamboyant hair styles, which often included colored streaks and accessories such as scarves, beads and feathers. As you can see in the video below, Hadwin looked nervous during the . Janis Joplin. Tommy Gaither, George Nelson, Johnny Reed, Alexander Sharp, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 23:52. [24][31] The lead single from the album, "Piece of My Heart", reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968.[58]. Janis Brings Soul To Amsterdam, 1969. [14], Joplin also had an on-again-off-again romantic relationship with Peggy Caserta. Rock And Roll. Initially, Joplin was eager to get on the stage and perform but was repeatedly delayed as bands were contractually obliged to perform ahead of Joplin. ", Segment in which Dick Cavett, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono discuss Janis Joplin starts at 1 minute 35 seconds, 20/20 segment entitled "Downtown" originally broadcast on the ABC network on January 13, 2000. During late August, September, and early October 1970, Joplin and her band rehearsed and recorded a new album in Los Angeles with producer Paul A. Rothchild, best known for his lengthy relationship with The Doors. She was actually trying to cut back when she was recording the final album Pearl, partly because she worried about what it did to her vocally. I was over my head and I tried to calm her down. [85], On October 1, 1970, Joplin completed her last recording, "Mercedes Benz", which was recorded in a single take. Shortly she will be merely Janis Joplin, a vocalist singing folk rock on her first album as a single. "In interviews and on TV Janis was always name checking female artists she loved like Etta James and later on Tina Turner. The Harvard Crimson gave the performance a positive, front-page review, despite the fact that Full Tilt Boogie had performed with makeshift amplifiers after their regular sound equipment was stolen in Boston. Does she think that in 2020 Joplin might stand accused of the appropriation of black culture in a way that she wasn't in her lifetime? [17] According to Amburn, in 1973 a "carful of dope dealers" visited a Los Angeles lesbian bar that Caserta had been frequenting. During the two years that followed, her drug use increased and she acquired a reputation as a "speed freak" and occasional heroin user. But she saw the power and emotion which can come through the human voice and that became her goal.". janis joplin kozmic blues 04:22 janis joplin me and bobby mcgee 04:29 janis joplin piece of my heart 04:26 the judges looked more than a little dubious as the first chords of hard to handle rang out, but hadwin proved she was no mere novelty when she the performance was so stirring and unique that howie mandel . Friedman said Joplin was "so drunk, so stoned, so out of control, that she could have been an institutionalized psychotic rent by mania. When she sang "Hard to Handle," Howie compared her to 60s singing sensation Janis Joplin and recalled that Janis was signed on the spot by Clive Davis. Suddenly Joplin was unrivalled as the leading female rock and blues singer of the era. The London interview was dubbed with a voiceover in the German language for broadcast on German television. Music Art. A book about Joplin by her publicist Myra Friedman titled Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin (1973)[108] was excerpted in many newspapers. [45][46][47] In early 1967, Joplin met Country Joe McDonald of the group Country Joe and the Fish. In February 1970, Joplin traveled to Brazil, where she stopped her drug and alcohol use. The posthumous Pearl (1971) became the biggest-selling album of her career[57] and featured her biggest hit single, a cover of Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster's "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson had previously been one of Joplin's lovers). In point of fact, Howie Mandel compared her to one of the most brilliant performers in the history of music, Janis Joplin. In her June 25, 1970 appearance, she announced that she would attend her ten-year high school class reunion. Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, during the summer[23] and later the University of Texas at Austin (UT), though she did not complete her college studies. What's he waiting for? Music historian Tom Moon wrote that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice," music columnist Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that Joplin as an artist was "overpowering and deeply vulnerable" and author Megan Terry said that Joplin was the female version of Elvis Presley in her ability to captivate an audience.[74]. The kids all seem to like it, but I couldn't really get behind it." Which is fine, that's generous. [41] In the circumstances the band signed with Bob Shad's record label Mainstream Records; recordings for the label took place in Chicago in September, but these were not satisfactory, and the band returned to San Francisco, continuing to perform live, including at the Love Pageant Rally. [44], In late 1966, Big Brother switched managers from Chet Helms to Julius Karpen. "Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.". The image, which was later published in two books by David Dalton, shows her before she relapsed into drugs. MP3 included. [24][76], On August 8, 1970, as the Associated Press circulated the news about Smith's new gravestone, Joplin performed at the Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, New York). [48], Joplin and Big Brother began playing clubs in San Francisco, at the Fillmore West, Winterland, and the Avalon Ballroom. Mandel added that he was a big fan of Janis Joplin's and referenced a story he learned from a . When Led Zeppelin came to the States, I think Janis was a definite influence on Robert Plant. Janis Joplin was known for living her life in the fast lane and, during her short but remarkable career, she made herself an unstoppable force that was undoubtedly the voice of her generation. "They'd seen their parents living a risk-averse lifestyle and Janis was desperate to avoid a life which would be diminished in the way theirs had been. The audio of other Festival Express performances was included on Joplin's In Concert (1972) album. Her first song, "What Good Can Drinkin' Do", was recorded on tape in December 1962 at the home of a fellow University of Texas student.[28]. "Interviewing people for my book I realised she'd actually been quite a serious student of music. In 15 years appearing as Janis Joplin, the singer has needed steroid injections handiest once, required to help calm incredibly swollen vocal cords.Due to the wear and tear that the function inflicts on the lead's vocal cords, although, Clanton was once taking the stage almost as often as Davies. June 15, 2018 by Kate Streit. C. Sevelda Crumpton. This was her standard stage costume in the spring and summer of 1970. The family attended First Christian Church of Port Arthur, a church belonging to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination. [23] Before it moved to the next level, Caserta was in love with Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew, and sometime during the first half of 1968 traveled from San Francisco to New York to flirt with him. 2. [33] She had begun a relationship with him toward the end of her first stint in San Francisco. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. HIT #1: March 20, 1971. "You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.". Joplin checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood on August 24, 1970,[82] near Sunset Sound Recorders,[17] where she began rehearsing and recording her album. During the sessions, Joplin continued a relationship with Seth Morgan, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student, cocaine dealer, and future novelist who had visited her new home in Larkspur in July and August. [115] Another song by Baez, "Children of the Eighties," mentioned Joplin. It was a pleasant surprise when 13-year-old Courtney Hadwin beggan singing on America's Got Talent on Tuesday night. [10][11], Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). Digitized color film of two songs in the Sunday set, "Combination of the Two" and a version of Big Mama Thornton's "Ball and Chain," appear in the DVD and Blu-ray boxed set of D. A. Pennebaker's documentary Monterey Pop released by The Criterion Collection. She screamed at him: 'We had a pact! [23], For approximately the first two weeks of Joplin's stay at the Landmark, she did not know Caserta was in Los Angeles. [17] Gravenites described her singing as "stupendous," according to Amburn. Jesus fucking Christ, I want to be happy so fucking bad.' When Jimi Hendrix Came To London: Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood And More Look Back; The Doors: the making of Morrison Hotel; Janis Joplin film wins Venice premiere; Janis: Little Girl Blue Janis lasted one semester at UT before heading to SF, the first time. Janis Joplin. [17] Soon after the 1973 publication of Going Down With Janis, Joplin's friends learned that graphic descriptions of sexual acts and intravenous drug use were not the only portions of the book that would haunt them. [17] One of Joplin's earliest major performances in 1967 was at the Mantra-Rock Dance, a musical event held on January 29 at the Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple. In an interview, Laura stated that Joplin enjoyed being on the Dick Cavett Show, that Joplin had difficulties with some, but not all, people at Thomas Jefferson High School and that Joplin enthusiastically talked about Woodstock with her parents and siblings during a visit to their Texas home a few weeks after she had performed at the festival. lanky arms controlled the stage, accentuating every movement she made while singing "Hard to Handle" by Otis Reading. Florence The Machine. [112] Lyricist Robert Hunter has commented that Jerry Garcia's "Birdsong" from his first solo album, Garcia (1972), is about Joplin and the end of her suffering through death. The Woodstock concert film includes 37 seconds of Joplin and Caserta walking together before they reached the tent where Joplin waited for her turn to perform. By early 1969, Joplin was allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per day (equivalent to $1300 in 2016 dollars)[23] although efforts were made to keep her clean during the recording of I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! In 2013, Washington's Arena Stage featured a production of A Night with Janis Joplin, starring Mary Bridget Davies. [23] Caserta admitted to waiting until late Saturday night to dial the Landmark switchboard, only to learn that Joplin had instructed the desk clerk not to accept any incoming phone calls for her after midnight. Footage of Joplin and Caserta begins at 1:44 and ends at 2:21, Robert Gordon can be heard saying at the 1995 ceremony that at the end of Joplin's life she enjoyed driving her Porsche over the speed limit "on the winding part of Sunset Blvd. Despite Graham's announcement that the Fillmore West gig was Big Brother's last concert with Joplin, the bandwith Joplin still as lead vocalisttoured the U.S. that fall. In addition to Woodstock, Joplin also had problems at Madison Square Garden, in 1969. Janis, which was reviewed by The Washington Post on March 21, 1975,[61] shows Joplin arriving in Frankfurt by plane and waiting inside a bus next to the Frankfurt venue, while an American female fan who is visiting Germany expresses enthusiasm to the camera (no security was used in Frankfurt, so by the end of the concert, the stage was so packed with people the band members could not see each other). She was ultimately unhappy with her performance, however, and blamed Caserta. Why used to be Janis Joplin's voice so raspy? Singing. [29] Two tracks, "Coo Coo" and "The Last Time," were released separately as singles, while the tracks from the previous single, "Blindman" and "All Is Loneliness", were added to the remaining eight tracks. When asked if she had been popular in school, she admitted that when in high school, her schoolmates "laughed me out of class, out of town and out of the state"[72] (during the year she had spent at the University of Texas at Austin, Joplin had been voted "Ugliest Man on Campus" by frat boys). Did Janis Joplin have a raspy voice? "Hard To Handle" by The Black Crowes from the album Shake Your Money Maker released in 1990 - now in HD#TheBlackCrowes #HardToHandle #Remasteredhttp://vevo.l. [24] Pearson was the second-to-last person to see her alive. [24], Kim France reported in her May 2, 1999 The New York Times article, "Nothin' Left to Lose": "Once she became famous, Joplin cursed like a truck driver, did not believe in wearing undergarments, was rarely seen without her bottle of Southern Comfort and delighted in playing the role of sexual predator. [37] She was recruited to join the group by Chet Helms, a promoter who was managing Big Brother and with whom she had hitchhiked from Texas to San Francisco a few years earlier. [33] Now living in New York where he worked with IBM computers,[34][35] he visited her to ask her father for her hand in marriage. [14] Five years later, Joplin told Rolling Stone magazine writer David Dalton the following about her first stint in San Francisco: "I didn't have many friends and I didn't like the ones I had."[31]. Janis Joplin died of a suspected overdose at just 27 years old on October 4, 1970 but some close to her believe something else happened. Starting at approximately 3:00a.m. on Monday, August 18, Joplin was among many Woodstock performers who stood in a circle behind Crosby, Stills & Nash during their performance, which was the first time anyone at Woodstock ever had heard the group perform. Her singing was not included (by her own insistence) in the 1970 documentary film or the soundtrack for Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, although the 25th anniversary director's cut of Woodstock includes her performance of "Work Me, Lord". Joplin mentioned her disappointment (over both of her friends' bailing out of their mnage trois) to her drug dealer on Saturday, while he was selling her the dose of heroin that killed her, as Caserta later learned from the drug dealer. Reflecting Joplin's crossover appeal, two October 1968 performances at a roller rink in Alexandria, Virginia, were reviewed by John Segraves of the conservative Washington Evening Star at a time when the Washington metropolitan area's hard rock scene was in its infancy. Who did Janis Joplin sleep with? [71] By the time she began touring with Full Tilt Boogie, Joplin told people she was drug-free, but her drinking increased.[17]. Her performance during the audition was so captivating and extraordinary that the judges were immediately blown away by her talent. In Brazil, Joplin was romanced by a fellow American tourist named David (George) Niehaus, who was traveling around the world. [24] Joplin sometimes brought an acoustic guitar with her to her sessions with Giarritano, and people in other offices within the building could hear her singing. The documentary film of the festival that was released in theaters during 1970 includes, on the left side of a split screen, 37 seconds of footage of Joplin and Caserta walking toward Joplin's dressing room tent.[69]. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) We all know real love is hard work, and Janis Joplin knew it too. [110] In 2018, Caserta denounced Going Down With Janis as the pornographic fantasy of Dan Knapp, her co-author, and largely unreliable. I suggested words here and there, and came up with the third verseabout asking the Lord to buy us a night on the town and another round. Bollywood News. Watch This Shy 13-Year-Old Stun The 'America's Got Talent' Judges With Her Singing. [127], In 2015, the biographical documentary film Janis: Little Girl Blue, directed by Amy J. Berg and narrated by Cat Power, was released. [98], Alcohol was present in the room. Ray Charles can be a country artist because he says he is; Joplin can sing the blues because she can sing the blues; Miley Cyrus can't twerk becausewell, you saw the video. [17][23] During the 24 hours Joplin lived after this disappointment, Caserta did not phone her to explain why she had failed to show up. She was more of a tech-head than you might expect and that was extraordinary at a time when no women were allowed to produce.". Leonard Cohen's song "Chelsea Hotel#2" (1974) is about Joplin. Still in San Francisco in 1964, Joplin and future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen recorded a number of blues standards, which incidentally featured Kaukonen's wife Margareta using a typewriter in the background. Her vocal performance had power and soul but it also had finesse - she's definitely not your average teenager. Impressed with the performance, Howie Mandel pressed the Golden Buzzer, . "[16] She stated, "I was a misfit. Her singing was real flabby, no edge at all. Joplin told rock journalist David Dalton that Garden audiences watched and listened to "every note [she sang] with 'Is she gonna make it?' In 2005, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She was quoted as saying, "It's my band. [62] Bernstein's review said that Joplin "has finally assembled a group of first-rate musicians with whom she is totally at ease and whose abilities complement the incredible range of her voice. Joplin pulled through, however, and engaged frequently with the crowd, asking them if they had everything they needed and if they were staying stoned. Inductees that year included Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Al Green, among others. [14] During her performance, Joplin's voice became slightly hoarse and wheezy, and she struggled to dance. The one-off event has come to be regarded as a turning point in American counterculture. [23] Caserta was amazed that such a talented singer could not afford a $5 item, and gave her a pair for free. During that month, her friends threw her a bus-fare party so she could return to her parents in Texas. [30], In May 1965, Joplin's friends in San Francisco, noticing the detrimental effects on her from regularly injecting methamphetamine (she was described as "skeletal"[17] and "emaciated"[14]), persuaded her to return to Port Arthur. You are all you've got. [23] Morgan did speak to Joplin via telephone within the 24 hours prior to her death, but little is known about that call. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence.. and looks at the person seated next to her. '"[24], A San Francisco concert from that summer (1966) was recorded and released on the 1984 album Cheaper Thrills. [83] Friedman wrote that the only Full Tilt Boogie member who rode as her passenger, Ken Pearson, often hesitated to join her,[24] though he did on the night she died. Score: 4.3/5 (45 votes) . One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals[2] and "electric" stage presence. Joplin lives on through hits like "Piece of My Heart" and "Me and Bobby McGee" and the generations of musicians she inspired. "[17] Despite being "stabbed three times in the chest, puncturing both lungs," Chappell eventually recovered. [17][70][91] They first met in November 1966 when Big Brother performed at a San Francisco venue called The Matrix. The band was influenced by the Stax-Volt rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul bands of the 1960s, as exemplified by Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays. On August 7, 1970, a tombstonejointly paid for by Joplin and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Bessie Smithwas erected at Smith's previously unmarked grave. [26] The campus newspaper, The Daily Texan, ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27, 1962, headlined "She Dares to Be Different. Joplin's bandmate Sam Andrew described Caserta as "halfway between a groupie and a friend" in an interview with writer Ellis Amburn. [94], Joplin was cremated at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, and her ashes were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean. [22], Joplin stated that she was ostracized and bullied in high school. [24] People at Sunset Sound Recorders overheard Joplin expressing anger about the state of her relationship with Morgan,[24] as well as joy about the progress of the sessions.[24]. When they realized who I was, they felt that my death would also hit Peggy, and so they stabbed me. This is a question our experts keep getting from time to time. who herself had fought hard for a life of stability in 1950s Port Arthur . 2018-present: America's Got Talent - In her audition for the 13th season of America's Got Talent, Hadwin sang Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle". She adored the talent of Nina Simone.". The two remained close friends until Joplin's death on October 4th 1970. The show went on tour in 2016. [49], Documentary filmmaker Pennebaker inserted two cutaway shots of Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas seated in the audience during Joplin's performance of "Ball and Chain", one in the middle of the song as her eyes, covered by sunglasses, are fixed on Joplin, and also a shot during the applause as she silently mouths "Oh, wow!" [94] The day after Joplin introduced Caserta to Morgan, Caserta saw Joplin briefly, again in Joplin's room, when Caserta accommodated her new Los Angeles friend Debbie Nuciforo, age 19,[95] an aspiring hard rock drummer who wanted to meet Joplin. Her sad death is the one main fact many people know about her - but for true fans she remains the best female rock singer there's been. In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of . In 1966, Joplin's bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the San Francisco-based psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, which had gained some renown among the nascent hippie community in Haight-Ashbury. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943, Janis Joplin made her way to San Francisco in 1966, where she fell in with a local group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. [and] had joined the Peace Corps after college and worked in a small village in Turkey. Opening in the summer of 2001 and scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim, played to packed houses and was held over several times. The performance was so stirring and unique that Howie Mandel compared Hadwin's soulful performance to the great Janis Joplin, giving her the coveted golden buzzer, automatically advancing her to the next round. Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the Beat poets. November 18, 1976. Me And Bobby Mcgee. Cheap Thrills produced very popular hits with "Piece of My Heart" and "Summertime". 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