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Melanie Safka

Bruce Pollock, 'In Their Own Words' (Collier Books), 1975

MELANIE EMERGED on the music scene, a tiny figure in the rain at Woodstock in 1969, alone onstage with her guitar and her songs. She has since gone on to become one of the most popular of our female singer/songwriters of the ‘70s

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