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Bessie Smith

‘Mother and Child Reunion’ - Paul Simon - 1972

“A song is capable of having several life spans”: The forgotten singer Paul Simon felt had immortal songs

Larger than life.

Matthew Ingate
Jun 2, 2026
Record - Vinyl - General - Vintage - Retro - Grammophone - LP

Who was the first woman to have a song banned by the BBC?

A pioneer.

Ben Forrest
Sep 28, 2025
Timeline- Inside the final days of Janis Joplin - Far Out Magazine

Five musicians that influenced Janis Joplin

An icon.

Aimee Ferrier
Aug 18, 2023
Betty Davis, the Queen of Funk, has died at 77

How Betty Davis delivered the ultimate erotic anti-Valentine’s Day anthem

A sultry classic.

Tom Taylor
Feb 14, 2022

The singer who inspired Janis Joplin’s vocal style

A hero’s hero.

Tom Taylor
Feb 12, 2022

The life and times of Bessie Smith: Music’s first diva

Icon.

Arun Starkey
Feb 6, 2022
Revisit Janis Joplin’s epic cover of jazz standard ‘Summertime’ from back in 1969

Janis Joplin once paid for a tombstone to be erected at the grave of her hero

A magnanimous move.

Pubali Dasgupta
Mar 5, 2021

Film Review: Queen Latifah depicts Bessie Smith in HBO’s ‘Bessie’

A good number of years in the making, Bessie is a HBO biopic chronicling the life of Bessie Smith, aka The Empress of the Blues.…

Lee Thomas
May 11, 2016
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