Baez, Joan Chandos

1941 - Born on the 9th of January in Staten Island, New York.

1959 - Recorded her first album for a major label, Joan Baez.

1960 - Became popular with young audiences for her songs and political views.

1961 - Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 went gold, as did Joan Baez in Concert.

1965- Rumor is that she slept with John Lennon when the Beatles were on tour.

1967 - Joan Baez gave free concerts supporting civil rights, UNESCO, and anti-Vietnam war rallies, Baez and her mother nearly seventy other women had been arrested for supporting young men who refused military induction.

1968 - Published an autobiography, Daybreak.

1980 - Joan was given Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees by both Antioch University and Rutgers University for her political activism and the "universality of her music".

1988 - Invited to sing at a communist music festival in communist Czechoslovakia.

2001 - The re-releasing Baez' first 13 albums that she recorded with them between 1960 and 1971 as part of their Original Master Series.

• "Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."
• "It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
• "As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."
• "You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."
• "You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You only get to chose how you're going to live."