Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined with her turbulent and emotional ...

Discover the tragic final days of rock legend Janis Joplin, from her untimely death to her enduring legacy. A story of life, death, and music. Uncommon knowledge: Trump’s Rob Reiner insult and the ...

Robert Plant has never been shy about the singers who shaped him, but one of the most surprising names on that list is Janis Joplin. Long before he was rock’s golden god, he picked up a small, almost ...

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 ...

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.

'Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can' will tell the life story of the iconic singer, who died at age 27 in 1970 Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

The trailblazing soulful singer died at 27 on Oct. 4, 1970 Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for PEOPLE. He previously covered entertainment at The Advocate, HuffPost, Logo News, MTV News ...

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 ...

Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...

Janis Joplin was a force, and she was even more incredible live. Sadly, many of us were too young to hear her sing in person, and all we have to get an idea of how good she was is a somewhat limited ...