ABINGDON, Va. — Janis Joplin last performed on Aug. 12, 1970. Two months later, the rock zenith died alone in a motel room on Oct. 4, 1970. Fans of the era never got another night with the Texas ...

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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 ...

A sad anniversary in rock music history has just passed: it’s been 40 years since singer Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in a Hollywood hotel. KPCC’s Nick Roman says Joplin had stayed in Los ...

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There's never been a Janis Joplin biopic. There have been movies -- like the 1979 Bette Midler vehicle The Rose, originally conceived as a Joplin movie before Joplin's estate withheld rights to her ...