If anyone were going to have a posthumous party instead of a traditional, tear-filled wake, it would have been iconic rock singer Janis Joplin. Three weeks after she died of a drug overdose in a Los ...

On this day in history, rock and roll singer and Port Arthur native Janis Joplin died of an accidental overdose at the Landmark Hotel in 1970. "The twenty-seven-year-old native of Port Arthur had ...

When Janis Joplin died at 27 on October 4, 1970, she left behind a groundbreaking musical legacy. But behind her powerful voice was reportedly a fragile soul who spoke of a yearning for "love" in a ...

There will simply never be another Janis Joplin. Growing up an outcast in Port Arthur, Texas, she continues to beguile generations more than five decades after her untimely death. Unfortunately, the ...

Janis Joplin played the last concert of her life at Harvard Stadium on Aug. 12, 1970 in front of nearly 40,000 fans. Some of the sound equipment had been pilfered before the show, causing a long delay ...

For the September, 1993 issue of High Times, Cree McCree provided an exhaustive profile of Janis Joplin, who died on October 4, 1970. She was the brashest of the brash, the life of San Francisco’s ...

Until I saw a story in The Boston Globe a few days ago, I didn’t realize the 50th anniversary of an evening I’ll never forget had snuck up on me. It was August 12, 1970, a painful night, to be sure — ...

LAST WEDNESDAY I TAPED a phone interview with Janis Joplin from California. I played it Sunday night on my radio show, only to wake up the next morning and find she had died that night. During the ...

In 1970 Janis Joplin was in Hollywood recording what became her “Pearl” album with its hit “Me and Bobby McGee.” This might have begun a new phase for the singer, but she keeled over in her motel room ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. By Richard Sandomir Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ...

Woodley is set to star in and produce Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, which will tell the life story of the iconic singer, who died at age 27 in 1970 One of Shailene Woodley's upcoming roles is ...