GRANDES MOMENTOS EN LA HISTORIA DEL ROCK

El 7 de Agosto de 1969, a las 5:15 de la tarde, Janis Joplin le chupó el pico al poeta y cantante canadiense Leonard Cohen en una habitación del Hotel Chelsea de Nueva York. A las 5:16 se enjuagó la boca. No había traído el cepillo.

La fecha es mentira, pero se especula que el hecho sucedió antes de Octubre de 1970, ya que posteriormente la mandíbula de Joplin se encontraba demasiado rígida para llevar a cabo una felación. Esta posibilidad, sin embargo, no ha sido descartada por completo.

Más adelante, Cohen diría
te recuerdo muy bien
en el Chelsea Hotel
you were talking so brave and so sweet.
Giving me head
on the unmade bed
while limousines wait on the street.
Those were the reasons
and that was New York
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love
for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.
Ah but you got away
didn't you babe
you just turned your back on the crowd
You got away,
I never once heard you say,
I need you
I don't need you
I need you
I don't need you
y todas esas weas.

Te recuerdo muy bien
en el Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again
you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist
for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said
"Well, never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away...
(...)
y todas esas weas.

I don't mean to suggest
that I loved you the best
no puedo llevar cuenta de cada angel caído
I remember you well
in the Chelsea Hotel
y eso es todo, no pienso en ti tan seguido.



"I never was able to master the record [Death of a Ladies Man, 1977], I, uh, couldn't get into a positon--couldn't command the songs where I wanted to... they ALL got away. So, I've always counted it as a bit of a failure, although it has been taken up... it was taken up by the... I've forgotten the different movements. One of the movements, of music, uh... Punk. A lot of the punksters celebrated the album, and wrote me about it, or praised me for...
My daughter likes it."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqLPZ-4G-9s