COVER STORY: Folk heroine; Joan Baez was the queen of the Sixties protest movement, with a voice of elemental power and a charisma to match. Bob Dylan was her lover, Martin Luther King her friend, and world leaders vied for her approval. But, as she tells JOHN WALSH, a living legend must move on.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 19, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: JOHN WALSH

Joan Baez was bumped off by Harold Shipman last week. She was due to appear on the BBC Breakfast programme on Tuesday. She had risen at some dispiriting, dawn-chorus hour, made a long, jet-lagged trek to BBC Television Centre - and then the general practitioner of death hanged himself, all the programme's guest slots were cancelled, and Joan was bumped off the show for 24 hours.

This was shocking news. Because nobody postpones, cancels or otherwise discommodes the formidable Ms Baez. Nobody would dare. For several decades, she has been a combination of ...