Janis Joplin Dies (1970) Just over two weeks after the death of Jimi Hendrix, singer Janis Joplin also died at the age of 27 from an accidental overdose. She had plans to work with her producer Paul Rothschild at L.A.'s Sunset Sound Studios on Oct. 4, 1970, but she never showed up...
Janis Joplin, 'Pearl' Joplin died before work was completed on her second solo album, but 'Pearl' is the most definitive portrait of one of the era's most colorful personalities. Joplin grabbed from the worlds of country, pop, R&B and blues music to fill out 'Pearl.' In the end, it...
Janis Joplin, 'Pearl' (1971) When Janis Joplin died from a heroin overdose on Oct. 4, 1970, the recording sessions for her second solo LP were almost complete. Working with Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild and a new backing group dubbed the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Joplin had spent four ...
Janis Joplin, 'Pearl' (1971) When Janis Joplin died from a heroin overdose on Oct. 4, 1970, the recording sessions for her second solo LP were almost complete. Working with Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild and a new backing group dubbed the Full Tilt Boogie Band, Joplin had spent four ...
Janis Joplin, 'Pearl' Joplin died before work was completed on her second solo album, but 'Pearl' is the most definitive portrait of one of the era's most colorful personalities. Joplin grabbed from the worlds of country, pop, R&B and blues music to fill out 'Pearl.' In the end, it...
Some of my favorites, such as Mama Cass Elliot and Janis Joplin, had died. It was sobering to watch the survivors of those times revisiting - or perhaps, attempting to recreate - those glory days. Joni had become a recluse, it seemed. I wanted to believe she was luxuriating in ...
Janis Joplin, 'Pearl' Joplin died before work was completed on her second solo album, but 'Pearl' is the most definitive portrait of one of the era's most colorful personalities. Joplin grabbed from the worlds of country, pop, R&B and blues music to fill out 'Pearl.' In the end, it...
“I remember one night I was at RCA Victor,” Balin says of an evening a few days before Joplin died. “It was late and nobody was there but me. I was listening to some tapes, and in comes Janis, and she says, ‘Marty, I’ve just made the greatest record ever! You’ve got ...
Janis Joplin, "Me and Bobby McGee" (1971) Only a few days before her death, Janis Joplin put the definitive spin on "Me and Bobby McGee," which Roger "King of the Road" Miller first recorded in 1969. Kris Kristofferson, who co-wrote it with Fred Foster, released his own take in 19...
"It's weird because people are always coming up with that. You've got to look at the past, and how many people have either died who were on that tour or are just incapacitated? It's not like the Eagles getting back together. You'd be trying to put something together that was a fe...