October 01, 2010 - The New York Times A Piece of Her Heart on a 40th Anniversary In the late summer of 1968, Big Brother and the Holding Company had nearly finished recording “Cheap Thrills” when Janis...
May 05, 1998 - Washington Post Janis Joplin: A Cry Cutting Through Time Can you picture James Dean, can you imagine Janis Joplin, grown old and wheezy and boring, trying to deliver clever...
August 20, 1973 - Newsweek Magazine Aphrodite’s Landslide The orthodox pop theory is that Janis Joplin died at the proper moment, just as her personal incandescence and megavolt...
August 12, 1973 - The New York Times Book Review The Earth Mother Was No More Than The Dearest Daughter Of The Angel of Death Reading Myra Friedman’s rich and richly observed biography, one is astonished to remind oneself that Janis Joplin’s career – from...