Janis Joplin, shown in a 1969 photo, ... t even let our players smoke a cigarette — we really looked down on that — so all the conversation was about her smoking weed!

Janis Joplin’s books. By Carolyn Kellogg. Feb. 4, 2011 4:33 PM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... stop smoking. Things like that. Maybe it would add a couple years to my life.

Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose in 1970, Joe Cocker did not. Janis Joplin is now the subject of an Off Broadway musical, Joe Cocker is not. Back in the late 1960s, Joplin and Cocker were the ...

In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of the counterculture, a female rock star at a time when rock was an all-boys' club. "At that point in time there weren't too many women taking center stage ...

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.

Joplin was both a product and an architect of her times; in dwelling so sympathetically on her tangle of talents, contradictions, and mythology, Janis brings one of rock's most enduring legends ...

It's 50 years since Janis Joplin died of an overdose in Los Angeles aged only 27. Her sad death is the one main fact many people know about her - but for true fans she remains the best female rock ...