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The tragic number - Fringe shows charting the musicians who died aged 27
11 Jul 2012
Trio of Edinburgh Fringe shows explore the haunted number
John Kielty is sitting in an Edinburgh bar, listing the supernatural properties of the number 27. ‘It’s the cube of three; three being the original magic number,’ he says. ‘The moon orbits the earth every 27 days. The sun revolves on its axis every 27…
Janis
13 Aug 2009
Challenging the legend behind the music
A one-woman show charting the rise and demise of Janis Joplin, one of the greatest blues singers and most personally troubled stars of the 1960s. The scene is a hotel room in Hollywood, where the singer is believed to have died from a heroin overdose.
