Janis Joplinonly lived to be 27, but made a mark on the music world like few other artists. Florence Welch, Pink, and Stevie Nicks are just some of the notable artists who’ve cited Joplin’s electric stage presence and emotional lyrics as inspirations. At her height, Joplin was called t...
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Getty Image Most Celtics fans alive today probably best know Tom Heinsohn for his contributions as a broadcaster, but he was no slouch during the nine seasons he spent as a player in Boston while racking up eight championships with a little bit of help from Bob Cousy and Bill Russell. The ...
The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.
your formative years synonymous with giggly times with your friends in the basement or woods. This is a company with more than 145 years of innovation in revolutionizing rolling paper whose influence could be seen in album artwork and advertisements for artists like Dr. Dre and Janis Joplin. ...
It’s weird to think of James Dean, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and all the other dead rock and movie stars as the ultimate conformists but that’s exactly what they were. Perhaps Rolling Stone Keith Richards put it most succinctly when he said: “I’m like this so you don’t have to...
JANIS JOPLINBIG BROTHER & the HOLDING COMPANYCHEAP THRILLS – August 12, 1968 CREAMWHEELS OF FIRE – AUGUST 1968 JEFF BECKTRUTH – August 1968 The CRAZY WORLD of ARTHUR BROWNSeptember 1968 JIMI HENDRIXELECTRIC LADYLAND – October 25, 1968 VAN MORRISONASTRAL WEEKS – November 1968 The ROLLING STO...
Janis Joplin The “Me & Bobby McGee” singer died not long after fellow rock icon Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin’s road manager and friend John Byrne Cooke found her body in her hotel room in the fall of 1970. An autopsy revealed Joplin died from an accidental heroin overdose. At the time...
Vladimir Duthiers has a new morning-show gig, a newborn and a path to broadcast journalism that’s just too bizarre to make up.
Born in Brownsville, Texas, Kristofferson started his music career in the mid-1960s. Despite being a singer himself, many of his songs were best known as performed by others, including Ray Price's US number one hit For the Good Times and Janis Joplin's 1971 single Me And Bobby McGe...