Aided by archival footage, photographs, and reenactments of Ian’s recollections, the 111-minute film charts Ian’s decades-spanning career — from formative summers at “peace and love, Woodstock” camps ...

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming. Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming, inspired by a restaurant owner they were friends with named Mary, ...

Ian had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s and went on to win two Grammys. A new documentary tells her life story through a combination of vintage footage and newly recorded interviews.

Janis Ian circa 1970s (left) and in 2023. Singer-songwriter Janis Ian had a Top 20 hit at age 16 with her 1966 debut single "Society's Child" The song, written from the point of view of a young girl ...

Janis Ian’s initiation into rock ‘n’ roll was early and dramatic. In 1966, at the age of 15, she recorded Society’s Child, a song she’d written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and ...

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian evolved from a precocious young talent to an influential figure in the music industry and an advocate for social justice. Born in 1951 to a politically active Jewish family ...

Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single ...

Listeners wrote in on several of Thursday's stories. Listeners comment on the interview with singer-songwriter Janis Ian, and Joanne Silberner's report on health care rationing in Britain. Now, to ...