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She first broke in the Netherlands with Beautiful People, a song she performed at Woodstock.
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) was written about that experience.
She is best known today for Brand New Key, a throwback song about rollerskating.
Melanie told music journalistRay Shashothat the song came to her after breaking a 27-day water fast.
I was fasting with a 27-day fast on water.
I broke the fast and went back to my life living in New Jersey, she said.
We passed a McDonalds and the aroma hit me, and I had been a vegetarian before the fast.
