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![]() On this day in 1970, she died of an accidental heroin overdose and was discovered in her Los Angeles hotel room after failing to show for a scheduled recording session. She did not live to see the album’s release, however. In the autumn of 1970, Janis Joplin was in Los Angeles putting the finishing touches on the album that would prove to be the biggest hit of her career, Pearl. And the rock and roll she produced was timeless, from “Piece Of My Heart,” “Get It While You Can” and “Mercedes Benz” to her biggest pop hit, “Me And My Bobby McGee.” Her drug and alcohol consumption was prolific. Her string of romantic conquests ranged from Kris Kristofferson to Dick Cavett. Far from being an empty cliché, “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” was a revolutionary philosophy to many in the late 1960s, and Janis Joplin was its leading female exponent. It was the no-holds-barred gusto with which she lived every other aspect of her life as well. ![]() I’m going to shove that power right into you, right through you and you can’t refuse it.” But if sheer abandon was Janis Joplin’s vocal trademark, she nevertheless always combined it with a musicality and authenticity that lent her music a great deal more soul than much of what the psychedelic era produced.īut it was never just music, or the passion she displayed in performing it, that made Janis Joplin an icon. It was the final album with her direct participation, and the only Joplin album recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, her final touring unit. ![]() ”I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” she once said in comparing herself to one of her musical idols. Provided to YouTube by Columbia/LegacyMe and Bobby McGee Janis JoplinJanis Joplin's Greatest Hits 1971 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertai. Pearl is the second and final solo album (and fourth album overall) by Janis Joplin, released on January 11, 1971, three months after her death on October 4, 1970.
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