Joplin was still recording her Pearl album when she died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970. That year, she and Kristofferson had a brief fling. His parting gift to her was a song, then a simple ...

Her career may have been cut short, but Janis Joplin's psychedelic blues legacy lives on with the limited-edition CD box set "Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection." Included are Joplin's two ...

Janis Joplin's final and posthumous release, 'Pearl', still echoes the pain felt by the famed singer decades after her untimely death.

Shailene Woodley. Taylor Hill/WireImage Shailene Woodley is ready to rock and roll as Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic about the legendary singer’s life. When asked by Jimmy Fallon if she will ...

Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she later disavowed — published after Ms. Joplin’s death.

Peggy Caserta, Janis Joplin's one-time lover, has died at 84. Caserta wrote two memoirs about her time with the rocker, including 1973's 'Going Down with Janis' and 2018's 'I Ran into Some Trouble.' ...

1970 - Curtis Mayfield left the Impressions to go solo. 1970 - Janis Joplin makes her last recordings, singing "Mercedes Benz," which is included on her posthumous Pearl album a capella. She dies ...

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 ...

Shailene Woodley will produce and star in a Janis Joplin biopic, which will receive $2.5 million in funding from the California film tax credit.

But again, it’s the power of the performances, and the dedication of the production to making the night with Janis Joplin real, that allows it to sort of get away with this. We can just believe in the ...

Performances of A Night with Janis Joplin begin this week in the West End, and we got a look inside the rehearsal room. The show celebrates Joplin and her musical influences. It features her greatest ...