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And you could see he was just so, so involved.

And I was a bit nervous because I had to interview him in the dressing room afterwards.

And I found most of the music very loud.

And I was discreetly trying to put my hands and my fingers in my ears.

But I knew that he was going to be famous, if not hugely famous.

I just knew because...

He was so, so intense and it turned out he was an incredibly nice human being and kept asking me how I was, which was not all that common.

Yes, I felt an enormous empathy with both of them, really.

With Jimi Hendrix, I saw very quickly that he'd had a really, really rough childhood.

I really, really liked him, and I bumped into him again in London, then twice in America.

And so by the last time, which was at the Whiskey A Go-Go in L.A., he was waving and came up to say hello.

So I really, really liked him.

I liked Janice Joplin a lot because the first thing she said to me was, "'Are you Jewish?'

And I said, yeah, yeah, I'm Jewish.

And she said, I always wanted to be Jewish.

And I spoke to her because I was sitting next to her at the Monterey Pop Festival.

I was sitting with the performers.

And also, she'd had a pretty tough life.

She understood acute anxiety.

And she used to say to me, look, really, what you need is some, you know, hard alcohol and some heroin.