Fifty-five years ago today, on Feb. 27, 1971, five months after her death, Janis Joplin’s final studio album began a nine-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album was Pearl. Released on Jan.

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will present A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN at the New Vic Theatre, starring Tony ...

At the end of 'Chelsea Hotel No 2', Leonard Cohen desperately tries to look nonchalant, but as it wraps up his most mournful song, it only makes it sadder.

Singer Courtney Love revealed she was once offered to play Janis Joplin in a movie while discussing the possibility of a biopic about her late husband, Kurt Cobain. “There was talk of a biopic a few ...

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 ...

Like most fans, Janis Joplin had a favorite Beatle, and it was George Harrison. So, understandably, she was a little upset when Paul McCartney came to see her and her band, Big Brother and the Holding ...

“To see this girl bring Janis to life was profound,” says Penelope Spheeris, the director of the upcoming Janis Joplin biopic The Gospel According to Janis, due in 2005. The “girl” in question is pop ...

Janis Joplin has passed into the realm of legend: an outwardly brash and inwardly vulnerable personality who possessed one of the most passionate voices in rock history. She is beloved around the ...