In the late summer of 1968, Big Brother and the Holding Company had nearly finished recording “Cheap Thrills” when Janis...

I’d been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when...

It’s been 37 years since Janis Joplin’s death in a Hollywood hotel room, and her former bandmate Sam Andrew still...

DALLAS, TEXAS: Called the most important female rock vocalist of the 1960s, Janis Joplin enjoyed a brief but powerful career...

The first time drummer Dave Getz jammed with a young Texas singer named Janis Joplin, he was impressed. But not...

Linda McCartney had uncanny timing. None better than that June afternoon in 1966 when she showed up to a press...

Don’t Look Back Vincent McGrath, London I am sure you are sick of being asked this question. Was the Donovon...

RICHARD Bell spells out the obvious when pressed about his storied career in the entertainment business. “It’s my favourite expression...

Can you picture James Dean, can you imagine Janis Joplin, grown old and wheezy and boring, trying to deliver clever...

Janis Joplin’s sturdy legacy has been re-addressed with the recent release of the three compact disc compilation, Janis. Longtime Joplin...

Oct. 8 – In a corner house on a shady street in Park Hill, you can still touch the raw,...

Despite all the full-tilt-boogie myths about her life, it’s not true that Janis Joplin-whose larynx-shredding singing style (as on 1968’s...