The Magazine

Album: The Magazine (1984)
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  • The title track to Rickie Lee Jones' fourth album, "The Magazine" is about her days scoring drugs. She got hooked on heroin after her wildly successful 1979 debut album, and despite being rich and famous, she got her drugs on the street along with the junkies.

    "I was a comprehensive member of the drug scene," she told Mojo in 1993. "Initially, I enjoyed it, but getting out was very, very very difficult. I was angry and I had no ability to envision the next day, or a reason to continue, or that I had worth."

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