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 ...

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 ...

Only a year before her death, Jani Joplin spoke frankly about ignoring medial advice to continue a life of countercultural hedonism.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Janis Joplin died at 27 on October 4, 1970, she left behind a groundbreaking musical legacy. But behind her powerful voice ...

Known as "The Queen of Rock" and “The Queen of Psychedelic Soul," Janis Joplin died on Oct. 4, 1970. It's a chance to remember Joplin's life and legacy. Joplin was born on Jan 19, 1943 in Port Arthur.

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 ...

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Fifty years ago today Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half century ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Janis Joplin may have famously pleaded for a Mercedes-Benz in her 1970 a cappella song but her car of choice was a psychedelic Porsche that now is going to be sold at auction. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...