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| Taking stock. |
Despite her famously throatily powerful voice, Joplin's death was a quiet one. All set to record her vocal track for a song called "Buried Alive in the Blues", she failed to show up to the studio. Concerned Full Tilt Boogie road manager John Cooke drove to Joplin's hotel, checking Joplin's psychedelic Porsche still in the parking lot.
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| High grade: Not likely to get stuck behind the Merry Pranksters' tour bus. |
He found her dead in her room. The official cause of death was listed as an overdose of heroin, or H, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol. Joplin was one of a number of her dealers' customers that had overdosed on unusually strong heroin that week.
Hash cookies were handed out at her funeral. Amongst those attending was fiancée and one-off novelist Seth Morgan, who was killed the day after his Oct 16 1990 arrest for DUI on the eve of literary success with his new novel when he crashed his motorbike into a cement embankment below a bridge in New Orleans drunk and high on coke.
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| Cold Comfort. |
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