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VAN MORRISON'S ``JANET PLANET' AT PEACE WITH HERSELF\ THE ORIGINAL ``BROWN-EYED GIRL,' NOW 51, LOOKS BACK RUEFULLY ON HER TURBULENT YEARS AS MUSE TO A ROCK ICON.

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

VAN MORRISON'S ``JANET PLANET' AT PEACE WITH HERSELF\ THE ORIGINAL ``BROWN-EYED GIRL,' NOW 51, LOOKS BACK RUEFULLY ON HER TURBULENT YEARS AS MUSE TO A ROCK ICON.

• BY LOUIS SAHAGUN Los Angeles Times
• Jan 2, 1999
• Jan 2, 1999 Updated Jan 25, 2015
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Even before she first cast eyes on him in the summer of 1966, behind a roller-rink-turned-concert-hall in San Leandro, Calif., she heard something powerful and poetic, inviting and dangerous, in Van Morrison's voice. It seemed to reach out of the radio, and grabbed hold of 19-year-old Janet Rigsbee's heart.

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