Janis Joplin endured heartbreaking loneliness before her tragic death. The soulful singer joined the so-called 27 Club -- a group of popular musicians who all died at age 27 -- in 1970 due to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Janis Joplin was a singer like no other. Her career was brief, yet her music remains powerful and moving. The singer from Port Arthur, Texas, had incomparable vocals that were unfettered, raw, and ...

Janis Joplin was the “hippie queen of show business,” the biggest female star in the history of rock ‘n’ roll when she died, according to the Los Angeles Times.

To capture Joplin’s raspy passion, and her sheer caterwauling volume, is exhausting work. Davies has been doing it in one form or another since 2005, and in this show since 2011, winning a Tony ...

There’s more than a little of Janis Joplin in the character Bette Midler played in 1979’s “The Rose,” but Hollywood has never managed to make a feature about the blues-rock singer. Amy ...

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 ...

Pink was once considered for a Janis Joplin biopic, but she dropped out of the project because she didn't want to compete with other stars like Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson for the role.

Janis Joplin played the last concert of her life at Harvard Stadium on Aug. 12, 1970 in front of nearly 40,000 fans. Some of the sound equipment had been pilfered before the show, ...

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 ...