A musical based on her life, A Night with Janis Joplin, goes some way to getting under her skin.It premiered in 2011 in New York, and gets its first London run this month. Written by Randy Johnson ...

On Oct. 4, 1970, legendary singer Janis Joplin passed away from an accidental heroin overdose in her Hollywood hotel. The singer, born on Jan. 19, 1943, and famous for her distinctively rough voice… ...

Grammy Winner Janis Ian On Career That Began At Age 14, And Bonds With Janis Joplin, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone & More. By Matthew Carey. ... Society’s Child, recently reverted to Ian. “ ...

When I saw Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Fillmore East last August, Janis Joplin put on the most exalting, exhausting concert I have ever been privileged to see, hear, and feel ...

Peggy Caserta, whose funky Haight-Ashbury clothing boutique was a magnet for young bohemians and musicians, and who exploited her relationship with Janis Joplin in a much-panned 1973 memoir that ...