“Mercedes Benz,” the disc showcased Joplin’s mastery of virtually all pop genres. The latter song was, along with a phone-message birthday greeting for John Lennon, the last thing she recorded; she died in October of 1970, and Pearl was released posthumously the following year. The ...
Birth Year: 1943 Birth date: January 19, 1943 Birth State: Texas Birth City: Port Arthur Birth Country: United States Gender: Female Best Known For: Singer Janis Joplin rose to fame in the late 1960s and was known for her powerful, blues-inspired vocals. She died of an accidental drug ...
In mid-August 1970, when Joplin returned to Port Arthur for her 10th year high school reunion, she was coming back, in part, to make a statement about her success, and specifically for those who had treated her badly as a teenager. But during the visit, Joplin was drinking hard and she...
Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band (archive footage), Performer ("Cry Baby", "Ain't No More Cane", "Tell Mama", "Me & Bobby McGee") $12K $1.2MM $1.3MM Janis and John (2003) Arranger ("Down On Me" (Live)), Performer ("Down On Me" (Live), "Kozmic ...
Janis Joplin, who died 43 years ago, was an active recording musician for only three years. She produced four studio albums, a mere two of which were under her own name, and only three of which came out in her lifetime. She composed a handful of songs, and her lone No. 1 pop hit...
What would Janis Joplin have been like today, Undoubtably mellower; likely dried out and cleaned up, because if she wasn't alcoholic at the time, she surely would have been soon. The toll would not have shown well on her face, but blues mamas are supposed to look the part, anyway. ...
I see thatJanis Joplindied forty years ago on this date, back in 1970. Her final album,Pearl, was released several months after her death, in early 1971, and was a transcendent album for me when I first heard it as a 12-year old. ...
“Mercedes Benz,” the disc showcased Joplin’s mastery of all pop genres. The latter song was, along with a phone-message birthday greeting for John Lennon, the last thing she recorded. She died in October of 1970, andPearlwas released posthumously the following year. The quadruple-platinum...
It's not that they're inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my guest. You know, Joni [Mitchell] was not a philosopher of rock 'n' roll. She didn't, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews ...
Janis: That what I learned in the church was everything I did NOT experience when I died! Jamie: She’s laughing and laughing. She has this unkempt hair, and when she started laughing, she kind of dives her fingers into it and tousles it in the way you’d do it if you were messi...