Janis Joplin played the last concert of her life at Harvard Stadium on Aug. 12, 1970 in front of nearly 40,000 fans. ... boozing it up with her drink of choice, Southern Comfort.

In “On the Road with Janis Joplin” (Berkley Hardcover, $26.97), which will be published on Tuesday, John Byrne Cooke, her former road manager, paints a different, more positive picture of the ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music,” New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer lived as long ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destr… ...

NEW YORK - CIRCA 1968: Singer Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company perform onstage ... “From what I gauged, she was trying to cut back on her drinking, ...

Janis Joplin, shown in a 1969 photo, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. ... Southern Comfort: Her drink of choice. By most accounts she consumed it prodigiously.

Janis Joplin's Drug-Related Death Isn't as Cut-and-Dry as You Think. By Britt Stephens. Updated on March 1, 2018 at 10:45 AM. ... (Janis's drink of choice was Southern Comfort).

Books The Secret Side of Janis Joplin Holly George-Warren’s biography of the Port Arthur singer covers the drugs and excess, of course. But it also uncovers the hard-working professional hidden ...

Janis Joplin, one of the 60s’ biggest stars, in a still from Autopsy: ... And the show talks about how she would often drink to “escape” from difficult feelings.

There’s a quote that haunts the legacy of the late singer Janis Joplin. “Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people,” Joplin once said. “Then I go home alone.” Those words seem to encapsulate ...

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 ...