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 ...

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'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).

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.

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’s short-lived but successful career ended 45 years ago Sunday, ... One night, she smashed a bottle of her favorite drink over Jim Morrison’s head.

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 ...

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.