Deep Purple

Booker T & the M.G.‘a

“My lungs gathered my courage, I said to her, ‘Are you looking for someone?’ She said ‘Yes, I’m looking for Kris Kristofferson.’ I said, ‘Little lady, you’re in luck, I am Kris Kristofferson.’ Those were generous times. Even though she knew that I was someone shorter than Kris Kristofferson, she never let on. Great generosity prevailed in those doom decades… She wasn’t looking for me, she was looking for Kris Kristofferson; I wasn’t looking for her, I was looking for Brigitte Bardot. But we fell into each other’s arms through some process of elimination.”  Leonard Cohen, on his meeting Janis Joplin in the elevator of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, a meeting which to led to their brief affair and to Cohen’s beautiful song, “Chelsea Hotel #2.”

Nick Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974)

goodbye

© Drew Phillips 

Deep Purple 1973 Black Night 7″ single United Kingdom