All the way back in 2004, P!nk was slated to star in a Janis Joplin biopic from director Penelope Spheeris that never saw the light of day. So you can count on Howard Stern to get her reflecting ...

She abruptly left Port Arthur, and only 13 months later, Janis Joplin and Big Brother stepped onto the stage at the Monterey Pop Festival and made rock and roll history.

Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” was an accident. The song’s lyrics were written at a Port Chester, N.Y., bar in August 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter ...

Nearly four decades after her death in 1970, this countercultural trailblazer is the toast of this year's American Music Masters series, presented by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Case ...

Janis Joplin, on the cover of her posthumously released 1971 album 'Pearl.' New documentary 'Janis: Little Girl Blue' delves into the life and times of the late, great singer.

Keep her acoustic guitar-and-vocal approach, P!nk then launched into a cover of Janis Joplin's Kris Kristofferson-penned "Me & Bobby McGee," which topped the Hot 100 in 1971.

Topline. Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley will play Janis Joplin in an upcoming film about the rock musician’s life, making her the latest of many actresses that have been attached to play Joplin ...

In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music." It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in Janis, her new biography of ...

Rock singer Janis Joplin, 26, shows a victory sign as she leaves police headquarters with her attorney, Herbert Goldburg, in Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 20, 1969.

As a singer, Janis Joplin always gave everything she had inside, and in the "Summer of Love," 1967, she became America's first female rock star: "She wanted to be like a female Elvis Presley, I ...

Shailene Woodley shared some information regarding her in-the-works Janis Joplin biopic during her Dec. 3 appearance on 'The Tonight Show,' where she said music producer Linda Perry "really pushed ...

Keep her acoustic guitar-and-vocal approach, P!nk then launched into a cover of Janis Joplin’s Kris Kristofferson-penned “Me & Bobby McGee,” which topped the Hot 100 in 1971.