The rocker said she was once up for the role of Joplin in a biopic that never came to fruition ...

Sometimes, Joan Didion and Janis Joplin overlapped socially, and eventually, they would meet at the writer’s home, at a party ...

In the 55 years since her death, there has not been another voice like Janis Joplin's. The future rock icon was born on Jan. 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, and two decades later, she moved to San ...

Janis Joplin is one of the artists who defined the Woodstock era of rock and roll. She and her band, Big Brother and the ...

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 ...

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Janis Joplin’s voice helped define the late 1960s, but behind the scenes her career was shaped by a manager who treated artists like high‑risk investments. Years before her death, Albert Grossman ...

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 ...

“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 ...