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Janis Joplin: The Final 24 (Full Documentary)
"Janis Joplin was the undisputed queen of rock and roll, her powerful, bluesy vocals, unmatched. Final 24 traces the roots of her addiction and uses archive...
Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us aware that on January 19, 1943 blues singer extraordinaire Janis Lyn Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas.
She was a phenomenal performer who poured her soul into her songs.
Thank you for posting the music video of Janis Joplin performing Move Over in honor of her birthday.
Images:
1. Janis Joplin with her 1965 Porsche 356C Cabriolet, circa 1969.
2. Janis Joplin on the roof garden of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City in June 1970
3. Janis Joplin performed with San Francisco psychedlic band Big Brother & the Holding Company Cheap Thrills.
4. Janis Joplin 'Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.'.
Janis Joplin: The Final 24 (Full Documentary)
"Janis Joplin was the undisputed queen of rock and roll, her powerful, bluesy vocals, unmatched. Final 24 traces the roots of her addiction and uses archive footage, dramatic reenactments and interviews with her closest companions – including her brother and former band mates - to piece together the last 24 hours of a voice of a generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRSptnZ7ykM
Background from {[https://www.liveabout.com/janis-joplin-biography-4582122]}
Biography of Janis Lyn Joplin by Patti Wigington
Updated December 27, 2018
Janis Joplin rose to fame in the late 1960s after her appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival. As the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, she was a charismatic performer known for her raw vocals and bluesy style. After releasing just three albums, Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, becoming part of rock and roll's infamous "27 Club."
Fast Facts: Janis Joplin
• Known For: Musician with a raw, bluesy musical style, a swaggering onstage persona, and a tragic early death at age 27
• Parents: Seth and Dorothy Joplin
• Born: January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas
• Died: October 4, 1970, in Hollywood, California.
• Education: Attended Lamar Tech College of Technology and University of Texas
Early Years
Born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Lyn Joplin was the oldest of three children. Her parents, who were an oil company engineer and a business college registrar, were occasionally quoted as saying Janis needed a lot of attention when she was growing up. Her father described her as "willful" and emotionally immature compared to her peers, in part because she had been skipped a grade in school, and thus was a year younger than all of her classmates.
An outcast who never quite fit in during high school, Janis had few friends, and was often bullied over her weight and facial scars from severe acne. She immersed herself in music and art, and graduated when she was seventeen; shortly afterwards she left Port Arthur and relocated to Austin to attend college classes. In 1962, the University of Texas school newspaper ran a brief profile of their unusual student, saying, “She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levis to class because they’re more comfortable, and carries her autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song, it will be handy."
Janis had discovered the blues, as well as the poetry of the Beatnik movement, and began experimenting with different singing styles while at UT Austin, but in early 1963, she decided she'd had enough of Texas and hitchhiked with a friend to San Francisco. Within a year or two, she and Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane had begun recording studio tracks together.
Janis threw herself into the Haight-Ashbury scene, and began drinking heavily and using recreational drugs. By 1965, she was dabbling in heroin and methamphetamines, and her friends in San Francisco persuaded her to return to Texas and get healthy again. Back home with her parents, Janis got off drugs, re-enrolled in college, and began seeing a mental health counselor.
Musical Career
Janis' return home to Texas was short-lived. She continued to work on her music, as both a writer and a singer, and in 1966, several of her Haight-Ashbury friends convinced Chet Helms of Big Brother and the Holding Company that he needed to check out the bluesy singer from Texas. Helms sent a friend to collect Janis from Austin, and she once again told her parents she was heading back to San Francisco. Janis performed her first gig with Big Brother in June of that year, at the Avalon Ballroom. Over the coming months, Janis tried hard to stay clean and sober—by some accounts, she demanded her bandmates abstain from using drugs in front of her, and got them to promise there would be no needles in their rehearsal location. During the summer of 1966, Janis and the other members of Big Brother lived in a communal space in Haight-Ashbury.
Despite a number of setbacks, including a midwestern tour that tanked when the group was stranded without money, Big Brother got into the studio and began recording, with Janis at the helm. When not recording, they toured up and down the west coast, and attracted a following not only within the San Francisco music scene, but all over the country. In June 1967, the band played the Monterey Pop Festival, and it was largely agreed that their set—and Janis—was the stuff that legends are made of. Two months later, the album Big Brother & the Holding Company was released.
For the next two years, the band toured, made television appearances, and worked on their second studio album, Cheap Thrills; by this point, the act was being billed as Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Janis worked tirelessly in the studio, not only singing, but also arranging, scoring, and experimenting with production modules. However, in 1969, she split from the group, and formed the Kozmic Blues Band, which had a more soulful, R&B sound than Big Brother's psychedelic style. Janis' influences were early African American blues singers like Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, and Leadbelly. Kim France of the New York Times wrote:
By all accounts, Joplin behaved as no white woman had ever before behaved on stage—a sexed-up powerhouse who stalked the stage as if she owned it, reducing male rock critics to comically blubbering buffoons.
During this period, Janis was again using drugs. In addition to drinking a lot, she was shooting hundreds of dollars worth of heroin every day. When the Kozmic Blues band arrived at Woodstock, in 1969, they sat backstage for nearly ten hours; Janis spent much of this time getting high, and when the band finally took the stage, it was clear that she was feeling the effects. Janis later said she was unhappy with her performance, and insisted that it not be included in the documentary about the festival.
After a brief stint in Brazil, where she tried to kick heroin, Janis returned to the United States and formed her next band, Full Tilt Boogie in May 1970. That summer, they recorded tracks for Pearl, an album which wouldn't be released until the following year. In early fall, Janis worked with Sunset Sound Recorders, and was scheduled to be at the studio to finalize some vocal tracks on October 4.
Death and The 27 Club
On October 4, Full Tilt Boogie's manager, John Cooke, and record producer Paul Rothschild became concerned when Janis didn't show up for her studio session, so they drove to the Hollywood hotel where she was staying. Her psychedelically-painted Porsche was still in the parking lot, so the two men entered the room, where they found 27-year-old Janis dead on the floor.
The official cause of death was a heroin overdose, with alcohol likely being a contributing factor. It is believed that Janis had been given an unusually potent dose of heroin; there were a number of overdoses that same week, all traced back to the dealer from whom Janis obtained her product.
Three weeks prior to Janis' death, guitar icon Jimi Hendrix, also age 27, had died from an overdose. As an odd pop culture phenomenon, a number of celebrities have passed away at the same age, leading to the macabre nickname of the 27 Club. "Members" include Joplin and Hendrix, as well as Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
Janis' primitive and bluesy style opened the gates for a number of women in rock music who have cited her as an influence. Performers like Stevie Nicks, Pink, Lana del Rey, Florence Welch, and Joan Jett all credit Janis as a musical hero, who brought her own unique, dangerous, and raw style to every song she sung.
Sources
• France, Kim. “Nothin' Left to Lose.” The New York Times, 2 May 1999, archive.nytimes.com/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/02/reviews/990502.02francet.html.
• “Janis Joplin.” Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/janis-joplin.
• Vincent, Alice. “Janis Joplin: Why She Still Has a Piece of Our Heart.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 19 Jan. 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/janis-joplin-why-she-still-has-a-piece-of-our-heart/.
• Weller, Sheila. “Discovering the Vulnerable Woman Behind Janis Joplin's Legend.” The Hive, Vanity Fair, 25 Nov. 2015, http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/janis-joplin-little-girl-blue-documentary-interviews."
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She was a phenomenal performer who poured her soul into her songs.
Thank you for posting the music video of Janis Joplin performing Move Over in honor of her birthday.
Images:
1. Janis Joplin with her 1965 Porsche 356C Cabriolet, circa 1969.
2. Janis Joplin on the roof garden of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City in June 1970
3. Janis Joplin performed with San Francisco psychedlic band Big Brother & the Holding Company Cheap Thrills.
4. Janis Joplin 'Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.'.
Janis Joplin: The Final 24 (Full Documentary)
"Janis Joplin was the undisputed queen of rock and roll, her powerful, bluesy vocals, unmatched. Final 24 traces the roots of her addiction and uses archive footage, dramatic reenactments and interviews with her closest companions – including her brother and former band mates - to piece together the last 24 hours of a voice of a generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRSptnZ7ykM
Background from {[https://www.liveabout.com/janis-joplin-biography-4582122]}
Biography of Janis Lyn Joplin by Patti Wigington
Updated December 27, 2018
Janis Joplin rose to fame in the late 1960s after her appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival. As the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, she was a charismatic performer known for her raw vocals and bluesy style. After releasing just three albums, Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, becoming part of rock and roll's infamous "27 Club."
Fast Facts: Janis Joplin
• Known For: Musician with a raw, bluesy musical style, a swaggering onstage persona, and a tragic early death at age 27
• Parents: Seth and Dorothy Joplin
• Born: January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas
• Died: October 4, 1970, in Hollywood, California.
• Education: Attended Lamar Tech College of Technology and University of Texas
Early Years
Born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Lyn Joplin was the oldest of three children. Her parents, who were an oil company engineer and a business college registrar, were occasionally quoted as saying Janis needed a lot of attention when she was growing up. Her father described her as "willful" and emotionally immature compared to her peers, in part because she had been skipped a grade in school, and thus was a year younger than all of her classmates.
An outcast who never quite fit in during high school, Janis had few friends, and was often bullied over her weight and facial scars from severe acne. She immersed herself in music and art, and graduated when she was seventeen; shortly afterwards she left Port Arthur and relocated to Austin to attend college classes. In 1962, the University of Texas school newspaper ran a brief profile of their unusual student, saying, “She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levis to class because they’re more comfortable, and carries her autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song, it will be handy."
Janis had discovered the blues, as well as the poetry of the Beatnik movement, and began experimenting with different singing styles while at UT Austin, but in early 1963, she decided she'd had enough of Texas and hitchhiked with a friend to San Francisco. Within a year or two, she and Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane had begun recording studio tracks together.
Janis threw herself into the Haight-Ashbury scene, and began drinking heavily and using recreational drugs. By 1965, she was dabbling in heroin and methamphetamines, and her friends in San Francisco persuaded her to return to Texas and get healthy again. Back home with her parents, Janis got off drugs, re-enrolled in college, and began seeing a mental health counselor.
Musical Career
Janis' return home to Texas was short-lived. She continued to work on her music, as both a writer and a singer, and in 1966, several of her Haight-Ashbury friends convinced Chet Helms of Big Brother and the Holding Company that he needed to check out the bluesy singer from Texas. Helms sent a friend to collect Janis from Austin, and she once again told her parents she was heading back to San Francisco. Janis performed her first gig with Big Brother in June of that year, at the Avalon Ballroom. Over the coming months, Janis tried hard to stay clean and sober—by some accounts, she demanded her bandmates abstain from using drugs in front of her, and got them to promise there would be no needles in their rehearsal location. During the summer of 1966, Janis and the other members of Big Brother lived in a communal space in Haight-Ashbury.
Despite a number of setbacks, including a midwestern tour that tanked when the group was stranded without money, Big Brother got into the studio and began recording, with Janis at the helm. When not recording, they toured up and down the west coast, and attracted a following not only within the San Francisco music scene, but all over the country. In June 1967, the band played the Monterey Pop Festival, and it was largely agreed that their set—and Janis—was the stuff that legends are made of. Two months later, the album Big Brother & the Holding Company was released.
For the next two years, the band toured, made television appearances, and worked on their second studio album, Cheap Thrills; by this point, the act was being billed as Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Janis worked tirelessly in the studio, not only singing, but also arranging, scoring, and experimenting with production modules. However, in 1969, she split from the group, and formed the Kozmic Blues Band, which had a more soulful, R&B sound than Big Brother's psychedelic style. Janis' influences were early African American blues singers like Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, and Leadbelly. Kim France of the New York Times wrote:
By all accounts, Joplin behaved as no white woman had ever before behaved on stage—a sexed-up powerhouse who stalked the stage as if she owned it, reducing male rock critics to comically blubbering buffoons.
During this period, Janis was again using drugs. In addition to drinking a lot, she was shooting hundreds of dollars worth of heroin every day. When the Kozmic Blues band arrived at Woodstock, in 1969, they sat backstage for nearly ten hours; Janis spent much of this time getting high, and when the band finally took the stage, it was clear that she was feeling the effects. Janis later said she was unhappy with her performance, and insisted that it not be included in the documentary about the festival.
After a brief stint in Brazil, where she tried to kick heroin, Janis returned to the United States and formed her next band, Full Tilt Boogie in May 1970. That summer, they recorded tracks for Pearl, an album which wouldn't be released until the following year. In early fall, Janis worked with Sunset Sound Recorders, and was scheduled to be at the studio to finalize some vocal tracks on October 4.
Death and The 27 Club
On October 4, Full Tilt Boogie's manager, John Cooke, and record producer Paul Rothschild became concerned when Janis didn't show up for her studio session, so they drove to the Hollywood hotel where she was staying. Her psychedelically-painted Porsche was still in the parking lot, so the two men entered the room, where they found 27-year-old Janis dead on the floor.
The official cause of death was a heroin overdose, with alcohol likely being a contributing factor. It is believed that Janis had been given an unusually potent dose of heroin; there were a number of overdoses that same week, all traced back to the dealer from whom Janis obtained her product.
Three weeks prior to Janis' death, guitar icon Jimi Hendrix, also age 27, had died from an overdose. As an odd pop culture phenomenon, a number of celebrities have passed away at the same age, leading to the macabre nickname of the 27 Club. "Members" include Joplin and Hendrix, as well as Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
Janis' primitive and bluesy style opened the gates for a number of women in rock music who have cited her as an influence. Performers like Stevie Nicks, Pink, Lana del Rey, Florence Welch, and Joan Jett all credit Janis as a musical hero, who brought her own unique, dangerous, and raw style to every song she sung.
Sources
• France, Kim. “Nothin' Left to Lose.” The New York Times, 2 May 1999, archive.nytimes.com/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/02/reviews/990502.02francet.html.
• “Janis Joplin.” Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/janis-joplin.
• Vincent, Alice. “Janis Joplin: Why She Still Has a Piece of Our Heart.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 19 Jan. 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/janis-joplin-why-she-still-has-a-piece-of-our-heart/.
• Weller, Sheila. “Discovering the Vulnerable Woman Behind Janis Joplin's Legend.” The Hive, Vanity Fair, 25 Nov. 2015, http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/janis-joplin-little-girl-blue-documentary-interviews."
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Janis Joplin - From the documentary film "Janis: The Way She Was" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-v6XJHQsc
Images:
1. Janis Joplin at the 1968 Newport Folk Festival.
2. Rock singer Janis Joplin in 1969. Evening Standard
3. Janis Joplin 'I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought'
4. Janis Joplin 'Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous'.
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Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger
The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as a solo artist. Although she wasn't always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians, her best recordings, with both Big Brother and on her own, are some of the most exciting performances of her era. She also did much to redefine the role of women in rock with her assertive, sexually forthright persona and raunchy, electrifying on-stage presence.
Joplin was raised in the small town of Port Arthur, TX, and much of her subsequent personal difficulties and unhappiness has been attributed to her inability to fit in with the expectations of the conservative community. She'd been singing blues and folk music since her teens, playing on occasion in the mid-'60s with future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. There are a few live pre-Big Brother recordings (not issued until after her death), reflecting the inspiration of early blues singers like Bessie Smith, that demonstrate she was well on her way to developing a personal style before hooking up with the band. She had already been to California before moving there permanently in 1966, when she joined a struggling early San Francisco psychedelic group, Big Brother & the Holding Company. Although their loose, occasionally sloppy brand of bluesy psychedelia had some charm, there can be no doubt that Joplin -- who initially didn't even sing lead on all of the material -- was primarily responsible for lifting them out of the ranks of the ordinary. She made them a hit at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, where her stunning version of "Ball and Chain" (perhaps her very best performance) was captured on film. After a debut on the Mainstream label, Big Brother signed a management deal with Albert Grossman and moved on to Columbia. Their second album, Cheap Thrills, topped the charts in 1968, but Joplin left the band shortly afterward, enticed by the prospects of stardom as a solo act.
Joplin's first album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, was recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band, a unit that included horns and retained just one of the musicians that had played with her in Big Brother (guitarist Sam Andrew). Although it was a hit, it wasn't her best work; the new band, though more polished musically, was not nearly as sympathetic accompanists as Big Brother, purveying a soul-rock groove that could sound forced. That's not to say it was totally unsuccessful, boasting one of her signature tunes in "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)."
For years, Joplin's life had been a roller coaster of drug addiction, alcoholism, and volatile personal relationships, documented in several biographies. Musically, however, things were on the upswing shortly before her death, as she assembled a better, more versatile backing outfit, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, for her final album, Pearl (ably produced by Paul Rothchild). Joplin was sometimes criticized for screeching at the expense of subtlety, but Pearl was solid evidence of her growth as a mature, diverse stylist who could handle blues, soul, and folk-rock. "Mercedes Benz," "Get It While You Can," and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" are some of her very best tracks. Tragically, she died before the album's release, overdosing on heroin in a Hollywood hotel in October 1970. "Me and Bobby McGee" became a posthumous number one single in 1971, and thus the song with which she is most frequently identified.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-v6XJHQsc
Images:
1. Janis Joplin at the 1968 Newport Folk Festival.
2. Rock singer Janis Joplin in 1969. Evening Standard
3. Janis Joplin 'I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought'
4. Janis Joplin 'Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous'.
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Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger
The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as a solo artist. Although she wasn't always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians, her best recordings, with both Big Brother and on her own, are some of the most exciting performances of her era. She also did much to redefine the role of women in rock with her assertive, sexually forthright persona and raunchy, electrifying on-stage presence.
Joplin was raised in the small town of Port Arthur, TX, and much of her subsequent personal difficulties and unhappiness has been attributed to her inability to fit in with the expectations of the conservative community. She'd been singing blues and folk music since her teens, playing on occasion in the mid-'60s with future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. There are a few live pre-Big Brother recordings (not issued until after her death), reflecting the inspiration of early blues singers like Bessie Smith, that demonstrate she was well on her way to developing a personal style before hooking up with the band. She had already been to California before moving there permanently in 1966, when she joined a struggling early San Francisco psychedelic group, Big Brother & the Holding Company. Although their loose, occasionally sloppy brand of bluesy psychedelia had some charm, there can be no doubt that Joplin -- who initially didn't even sing lead on all of the material -- was primarily responsible for lifting them out of the ranks of the ordinary. She made them a hit at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, where her stunning version of "Ball and Chain" (perhaps her very best performance) was captured on film. After a debut on the Mainstream label, Big Brother signed a management deal with Albert Grossman and moved on to Columbia. Their second album, Cheap Thrills, topped the charts in 1968, but Joplin left the band shortly afterward, enticed by the prospects of stardom as a solo act.
Joplin's first album, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, was recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band, a unit that included horns and retained just one of the musicians that had played with her in Big Brother (guitarist Sam Andrew). Although it was a hit, it wasn't her best work; the new band, though more polished musically, was not nearly as sympathetic accompanists as Big Brother, purveying a soul-rock groove that could sound forced. That's not to say it was totally unsuccessful, boasting one of her signature tunes in "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)."
For years, Joplin's life had been a roller coaster of drug addiction, alcoholism, and volatile personal relationships, documented in several biographies. Musically, however, things were on the upswing shortly before her death, as she assembled a better, more versatile backing outfit, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, for her final album, Pearl (ably produced by Paul Rothchild). Joplin was sometimes criticized for screeching at the expense of subtlety, but Pearl was solid evidence of her growth as a mature, diverse stylist who could handle blues, soul, and folk-rock. "Mercedes Benz," "Get It While You Can," and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" are some of her very best tracks. Tragically, she died before the album's release, overdosing on heroin in a Hollywood hotel in October 1970. "Me and Bobby McGee" became a posthumous number one single in 1971, and thus the song with which she is most frequently identified.
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Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg examines the meteoric rise and untimely fall of one of the most revered and iconic rock 'n' roll singers of all time:...
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Oscar®-nominated documentarian Amy Berg examines the meteoric rise and untimely fall of one of the most revered and iconic rock 'n' roll singers of all time: Janis Joplin. Joplin's life story is revealed for the first time on film through electrifying archival footage, revealing interviews with friends and family and rare personal letters, presenting an intimate and insightful portrait of a bright, complicated artist who changed music forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fjSCOpAmw4
Images:
1. Janis Joplin at the Royal Albert Hall in London
2. Janis Joplin's final album Pearl recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band
3. Janis Joplin's first album 'I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama' recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band.
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Janis Joplin Biography
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Born January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Died October 4, 1970 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (heroin overdose)
Birth Name Janis Lyn Joplin
Nicknames Pearl
The Queen of Psychedelic Soul
The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars.She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer Dave Getz). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee".
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Distinctive raspy voice
Mezzo-soprano vocals
Shoulder-length brown hair
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1. Was a member of the Glee Club and the Future Teachers of America while in high school.
2. Was arrested for using "vulgar and indecent language" while performing at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida on November 16, 1969. Unlike Jim Morrison, who was arrested onstage in the middle of his Florida performance earlier in 1969, Joplin was allowed to finish her concert and then got handcuffed by police backstage. Was released on a $504 bond after spending approximately an hour behind bars. During the four days, she remained in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area awaiting a preliminary hearing, she went fishing. At the hearing, she was advised by a local lawyer she hired, Herbert Goldburg, that jail time was unlikely. A photographer for Associated Press captured the two of them leaving police headquarters after the proceedings. The image shows Joplin, clad in a fur coat, grinning and flashing a "V" sign with her fingers. Goldburg looks displeased. Joplin made a point of telling the AP that her sign stood for "victory, not peace". The following March she was fined $200 in absentia and the case was closed without her ever returning to Tampa. Curtis Hixon Hall has been demolished.
3. Was the oldest of three children: has a younger sister, Laura Joplin, and a younger brother, Michael Joplin.
4. In 2001, Topps trading cards, in their American Pie Baseball brand produced a "Piece of American Pie" memorabilia insert set that included a Joplin-worn dress that is seen on her album "Pearl".
5. Ranked #3 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
6. She was voted the 47th Greatest Artist in Rock 'n' Roll by Rolling Stone.
7. Was friends with Jimi Hendrix.
8. Was good friends with Grace Slick and Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson wrote her song "Me and Bobby McGee", which became her only 45 single to reach #1 on the Billboard chart.
9. Loved to drink Southern Comfort.
10. Was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean.
11. Posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995).
12. October 4, 1970: Died of a heroin overdose while she was legally drunk in Room 105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel located next door to the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, California. After she mainlined the drug, she was able to leave her room, walk to the lobby, ask the desk clerk to change a five-dollar bill so she could spend 50 cents on a pack of cigarettes, pull the rigid knob on the cigarette machine, return to her room and remove some of her clothes. She then fell suddenly, breaking her nose. The desk clerk later stated that while he was giving her change she talked happily about the new album she was recording, although he believed, based on having interacted with her since her August 24 check in, that she "was not a happy person". Her body was discovered approximately 18 hours later by her road manager, who was the son of Alistair Cooke.
13. Wrote her will shortly before her death. Drawing up the document with her Los Angeles lawyer, she set aside $2500 for her friends to throw a party in the event of her death. After she died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, her friends followed her wishes and threw a party in her honor at a club in San Anselmo, California. The party invitations read: "Drinks are on Pearl". Younger sister Laura Joplin, six years her junior, was among those who attended.
14. The character Frankie Hart in American Pop (1981) was based partially on her and partially on Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick.
15. Was high school classmates, in Port Arthur, with former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, who gave her her nickname "Beat Weeds".
16. Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen penned "Chelsea Hotel #2" about her.
17. The manual dexterity displayed during the very last moments of life (changing a five-dollar bill, using a cigarette machine and undressing despite drunkenness and expectation of a heroin high) was a lifelong trait. Biographer Myra Friedman was told by Joplin's parents that when they interacted with other new parents in Port Arthur, Texas in the 1940s, everyone noticed their first-born child's dexterity with eating utensils, drinking glasses and napkins. The Joplins often took their toddler to the homes of other new parents to demonstrate these motor skills. Regularly drove drunk in California (in her custom-built Porsche) during the last two years of her life. No accidents were ever reported (in newspapers or several biographies), and only one instance of getting pulled over is noted (in a book by Peggy Caserta, who claimed the officer recognized the singer and let her go with a warning). Only one known injury during a performance, which happened in College Park, Maryland and turned out to be a source of humor on The Dick Cavett Show (1968). Manual dexterity and the appearance of controlling her own destiny, no matter how drunk or stoned, diverted many people's attention from the possibility of imminent death. However, personal manager Albert Grossman expected it and (in June 1969) took out a $200,000 insurance policy on his client in case of accidental death. Grossman, famous for signing the young Bob Dylan, collected $112,000 from the San Francisco Associated Indemnity Corporation almost four years after his female client's "accident". During a three-week trial in the New York State Supreme Court, Grossman swore under oath he had not known in June 1969 that Joplin used heroin. He won the 1974 case against the insurer despite its efforts to prove Joplin's death had been a suicide.
18. Her good friend and former lover, Kris Kristofferson, has on numerous occasions stated that he is absolutely sure she did not commit suicide, but also believes that the course that Janis had chosen to take was a dangerous, self-destructive one, a fact of which he knows she was also aware.
19. Played by Janelle Powers in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014).
20. Died at 27 years old, making her a member of the "27 Club"; the 27 Club is a group of prominent musicians who died at the age of 27. Other members include The Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, guitarist Jimi Hendrix, The Doors frontman Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
21. Along with Grace Slick, she was one of the first female rock stars and an important figure in the directed change of rock music in the late 1960s.
22. Pictured on a USA nondenominated commemorative postage stamp in the Music Icons series, issued 8 August 2014. Price on day of issue was 49¢.
23. She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 4, 2013.
24. Her passing was acknowledged in Don McLean's classic song "American Pie": "I met a girl who sang the blues/And I asked her for some happy news/But she just smiled and turned away.".
25. Over the years, there have been many unsuccessful attempts to film a biopic on Janis Joplin. Actresses who have been attached to play the singer include: Melissa Etheridge (circa 1996, in Gary Fleder's project Piece of My Heart); Brittany Murphy (in 1999, also in Fleder's project); Lili Taylor (in a competing 1999 project); Laura Theodore (also 1999; in a never-filmed adaptation of the off-Broadway play "Love, Janis" by Janis' sister Laura Joplin); Renée Zellweger (2003, in Piece of My Heart); Pink (2004) and Zooey Deschanel (2006) (both in Penelope Spheeris' The Gospel According to Janis); Reese Witherspoon (2007, in an untitled Catherine Hardwicke project); Nina Arianda (2012 in Sean Durkin's Janis); Amy Adams (2010 in Get It While You Can); and Michelle Williams (2016 in Durkin's Janis). As of July 2017, none of these projects have ever been filmed; most of them never even came close to going into production. Many were stymied by extensive legal problems with obtaining music rights to Joplin's songs.
26. The many decades of failed attempts to film a biopic on Janis Joplin eventually became such a publicly well-known Hollywood phenomenon that this was a running joke on the third season of the NBC sitcom "30 Rock": The character Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) is cast in a Janis Joplin biopic. However, the producing company has failed to obtain Joplin's life rights or the music rights to any of her actual songs. The filming continues, but for legal reasons the main character has to take a series of names that are increasingly removed from the name "Janis Joplin": "Janet Joppler", "Janie Jimplin", and finally "Jackie Jormp-Jomp", in a movie that is eventually titled, "Sing Them Blues, White Girl: The Jackie Jormp Jomp Story". Jenna is also obliged to sing "sound-alike" songs and lyrics such as "Chunk of My Lung" (instead of "Piece of My Heart") and "Synonym's just another word for the word you wanna use" (instead of "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" from "Me and Bobby McGee").
Personal Quotes (10)
1. My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink.
2. On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
3. [asked by a reporter what "acid rock" was] I wouldn't know. I'm a juicer.
4. You know, I have to have the umph. I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
5. They're frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I've never known a one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own.
6. I don't believe in gate-crashing. The people aren't up there when I'm sweating on a stage at a festival, breaking my ass. You can get the money to buy a concert ticket, man. Sell your old lady, sell your dope. Look at me, man, I'm selling my heart.
7. I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me. I'm full of emotion and I want a release, and if you're on stage and if it's really working and you've got the audience with you, it's a oneness you feel.
8. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends. So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
9. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color television? Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me. I wait for delivery each day until three. So Lord, won't you buy me a color television?
10. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town? I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down. Prove that you love me and buy the next round. So Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town.
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Oscar®-nominated documentarian Amy Berg examines the meteoric rise and untimely fall of one of the most revered and iconic rock 'n' roll singers of all time: Janis Joplin. Joplin's life story is revealed for the first time on film through electrifying archival footage, revealing interviews with friends and family and rare personal letters, presenting an intimate and insightful portrait of a bright, complicated artist who changed music forever.
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1. Janis Joplin at the Royal Albert Hall in London
2. Janis Joplin's final album Pearl recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band
3. Janis Joplin's first album 'I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama' recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band.
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Janis Joplin Biography
Overview (5)
Born January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Died October 4, 1970 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (heroin overdose)
Birth Name Janis Lyn Joplin
Nicknames Pearl
The Queen of Psychedelic Soul
The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars.She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer Dave Getz). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee".
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Trivia (26)
1. Was a member of the Glee Club and the Future Teachers of America while in high school.
2. Was arrested for using "vulgar and indecent language" while performing at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida on November 16, 1969. Unlike Jim Morrison, who was arrested onstage in the middle of his Florida performance earlier in 1969, Joplin was allowed to finish her concert and then got handcuffed by police backstage. Was released on a $504 bond after spending approximately an hour behind bars. During the four days, she remained in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area awaiting a preliminary hearing, she went fishing. At the hearing, she was advised by a local lawyer she hired, Herbert Goldburg, that jail time was unlikely. A photographer for Associated Press captured the two of them leaving police headquarters after the proceedings. The image shows Joplin, clad in a fur coat, grinning and flashing a "V" sign with her fingers. Goldburg looks displeased. Joplin made a point of telling the AP that her sign stood for "victory, not peace". The following March she was fined $200 in absentia and the case was closed without her ever returning to Tampa. Curtis Hixon Hall has been demolished.
3. Was the oldest of three children: has a younger sister, Laura Joplin, and a younger brother, Michael Joplin.
4. In 2001, Topps trading cards, in their American Pie Baseball brand produced a "Piece of American Pie" memorabilia insert set that included a Joplin-worn dress that is seen on her album "Pearl".
5. Ranked #3 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
6. She was voted the 47th Greatest Artist in Rock 'n' Roll by Rolling Stone.
7. Was friends with Jimi Hendrix.
8. Was good friends with Grace Slick and Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson wrote her song "Me and Bobby McGee", which became her only 45 single to reach #1 on the Billboard chart.
9. Loved to drink Southern Comfort.
10. Was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean.
11. Posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995).
12. October 4, 1970: Died of a heroin overdose while she was legally drunk in Room 105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel located next door to the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, California. After she mainlined the drug, she was able to leave her room, walk to the lobby, ask the desk clerk to change a five-dollar bill so she could spend 50 cents on a pack of cigarettes, pull the rigid knob on the cigarette machine, return to her room and remove some of her clothes. She then fell suddenly, breaking her nose. The desk clerk later stated that while he was giving her change she talked happily about the new album she was recording, although he believed, based on having interacted with her since her August 24 check in, that she "was not a happy person". Her body was discovered approximately 18 hours later by her road manager, who was the son of Alistair Cooke.
13. Wrote her will shortly before her death. Drawing up the document with her Los Angeles lawyer, she set aside $2500 for her friends to throw a party in the event of her death. After she died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, her friends followed her wishes and threw a party in her honor at a club in San Anselmo, California. The party invitations read: "Drinks are on Pearl". Younger sister Laura Joplin, six years her junior, was among those who attended.
14. The character Frankie Hart in American Pop (1981) was based partially on her and partially on Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick.
15. Was high school classmates, in Port Arthur, with former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, who gave her her nickname "Beat Weeds".
16. Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen penned "Chelsea Hotel #2" about her.
17. The manual dexterity displayed during the very last moments of life (changing a five-dollar bill, using a cigarette machine and undressing despite drunkenness and expectation of a heroin high) was a lifelong trait. Biographer Myra Friedman was told by Joplin's parents that when they interacted with other new parents in Port Arthur, Texas in the 1940s, everyone noticed their first-born child's dexterity with eating utensils, drinking glasses and napkins. The Joplins often took their toddler to the homes of other new parents to demonstrate these motor skills. Regularly drove drunk in California (in her custom-built Porsche) during the last two years of her life. No accidents were ever reported (in newspapers or several biographies), and only one instance of getting pulled over is noted (in a book by Peggy Caserta, who claimed the officer recognized the singer and let her go with a warning). Only one known injury during a performance, which happened in College Park, Maryland and turned out to be a source of humor on The Dick Cavett Show (1968). Manual dexterity and the appearance of controlling her own destiny, no matter how drunk or stoned, diverted many people's attention from the possibility of imminent death. However, personal manager Albert Grossman expected it and (in June 1969) took out a $200,000 insurance policy on his client in case of accidental death. Grossman, famous for signing the young Bob Dylan, collected $112,000 from the San Francisco Associated Indemnity Corporation almost four years after his female client's "accident". During a three-week trial in the New York State Supreme Court, Grossman swore under oath he had not known in June 1969 that Joplin used heroin. He won the 1974 case against the insurer despite its efforts to prove Joplin's death had been a suicide.
18. Her good friend and former lover, Kris Kristofferson, has on numerous occasions stated that he is absolutely sure she did not commit suicide, but also believes that the course that Janis had chosen to take was a dangerous, self-destructive one, a fact of which he knows she was also aware.
19. Played by Janelle Powers in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014).
20. Died at 27 years old, making her a member of the "27 Club"; the 27 Club is a group of prominent musicians who died at the age of 27. Other members include The Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, guitarist Jimi Hendrix, The Doors frontman Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
21. Along with Grace Slick, she was one of the first female rock stars and an important figure in the directed change of rock music in the late 1960s.
22. Pictured on a USA nondenominated commemorative postage stamp in the Music Icons series, issued 8 August 2014. Price on day of issue was 49¢.
23. She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 4, 2013.
24. Her passing was acknowledged in Don McLean's classic song "American Pie": "I met a girl who sang the blues/And I asked her for some happy news/But she just smiled and turned away.".
25. Over the years, there have been many unsuccessful attempts to film a biopic on Janis Joplin. Actresses who have been attached to play the singer include: Melissa Etheridge (circa 1996, in Gary Fleder's project Piece of My Heart); Brittany Murphy (in 1999, also in Fleder's project); Lili Taylor (in a competing 1999 project); Laura Theodore (also 1999; in a never-filmed adaptation of the off-Broadway play "Love, Janis" by Janis' sister Laura Joplin); Renée Zellweger (2003, in Piece of My Heart); Pink (2004) and Zooey Deschanel (2006) (both in Penelope Spheeris' The Gospel According to Janis); Reese Witherspoon (2007, in an untitled Catherine Hardwicke project); Nina Arianda (2012 in Sean Durkin's Janis); Amy Adams (2010 in Get It While You Can); and Michelle Williams (2016 in Durkin's Janis). As of July 2017, none of these projects have ever been filmed; most of them never even came close to going into production. Many were stymied by extensive legal problems with obtaining music rights to Joplin's songs.
26. The many decades of failed attempts to film a biopic on Janis Joplin eventually became such a publicly well-known Hollywood phenomenon that this was a running joke on the third season of the NBC sitcom "30 Rock": The character Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) is cast in a Janis Joplin biopic. However, the producing company has failed to obtain Joplin's life rights or the music rights to any of her actual songs. The filming continues, but for legal reasons the main character has to take a series of names that are increasingly removed from the name "Janis Joplin": "Janet Joppler", "Janie Jimplin", and finally "Jackie Jormp-Jomp", in a movie that is eventually titled, "Sing Them Blues, White Girl: The Jackie Jormp Jomp Story". Jenna is also obliged to sing "sound-alike" songs and lyrics such as "Chunk of My Lung" (instead of "Piece of My Heart") and "Synonym's just another word for the word you wanna use" (instead of "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" from "Me and Bobby McGee").
Personal Quotes (10)
1. My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink.
2. On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
3. [asked by a reporter what "acid rock" was] I wouldn't know. I'm a juicer.
4. You know, I have to have the umph. I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
5. They're frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I've never known a one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own.
6. I don't believe in gate-crashing. The people aren't up there when I'm sweating on a stage at a festival, breaking my ass. You can get the money to buy a concert ticket, man. Sell your old lady, sell your dope. Look at me, man, I'm selling my heart.
7. I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me. I'm full of emotion and I want a release, and if you're on stage and if it's really working and you've got the audience with you, it's a oneness you feel.
8. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends. So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
9. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color television? Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me. I wait for delivery each day until three. So Lord, won't you buy me a color television?
10. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town? I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down. Prove that you love me and buy the next round. So Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town.
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