Blog posts tagged "Janis Joplin"

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Jun. 08, 2016 - 5:15 pm
When Janis Joplin died on Oct. 4, 1970, at the age of 27, she had only been in the public consciousness for three years. As lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, she skyrocketed to fame overnight after a searing performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, in 1967. In the brief space in...