Today is the Birthday of Janis Joplin - Icon of 1960s psychedelic - TopicsExpress



          

Today is the Birthday of Janis Joplin - Icon of 1960s psychedelic rock for her rough sound and released five charted singles during her four-year career, including Me and Bobby McGee. She was found dead at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood, California by one of her road managers, John Cooke. She gained weight and broke out in pimples, and her peers, including football broadcaster Jimmy Johnson, called her a pig and a creep. She briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin. Her legacy includes the anti-consumerism song Mercedes Benz, as well as other romantic songs like Another Piece of My Heart. She had a younger sister named Laura Joplin and younger brother named Michael Joplin. Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Jim Morrison were all rock performers who died at age twenty-seven.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:06:46 +0000

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