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Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her electric stage presence.
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entertainment · American singer (1943–1970) · singer · singer-songwriter · composer · guitarist · recording artist · also Janis Joplin, Janis Lyn Joplin, Joplin
Born 19 January 1943 · Died 4 October 1970 · Q1514
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2026· 14 entries
Published video “Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company - Live at Winterland ’68 (Full Album)”.
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KOAM News Now: Joplin surplus auction to feature computers, office equipment, and machinery
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Newstalk KZRG: Patrick Tuttle, Director of Joplin Convention and Visitors Bureau, announces plans to retire
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Published video ““You’re staying stoned and you got enough water and you got a place to sleep and everything?..."”.
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Published video “Janis reflects on her high school years at her Port Arthur reunion in 1970.”.
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Published video “"All I ever wanted was for you to understand"”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company - Live at the Grande Ballroom Detroit (Full Album)”.
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Published video “Like Janis Joplin, "Mama" Cass Elliot put everything she had into her music.”.
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Published video “Janis always knew how to work the crowd 😂”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin Graphic Novel Pre-Order”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company - Big Brother and the Holding Co. (Full Album)”.
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Published video “Trying just a little bit harder to make it to the weekend😴”.
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Published video “Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin - Call On Me (Official Audio)”.
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2024· 13 entries
Released album “Live at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit”.
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Released album “Essential Classics, Vol. 432: Janis Joplin”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - Trust Me (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - Move Over (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - A Woman Left Lonely (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - To Love Somebody (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - As Good As You've Been to This World (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - One Good Man (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - Get It While You Can (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Janis Joplin - Buried Alive In the Blues (Official Audio)”.
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The Guardian: ‘She knew where she wanted to go – and just kept going’: the real Janis Joplin, by those closest to her
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Released album “Ten songs for you”.
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2023· 4 entries
Released album “Honolulu 1970”.
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Rolling Stone then ranked Joplin at number 78 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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NPR dubbed Joplin as the "Queen of Rock" and named her one of the "50 Great Voices"
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Released album “The Broadcast Collection 1967–1970”.
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “The Legendary Typewriter Tape 6/25/64 Jorma's House”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Takes to the Sky: Live 1968”.
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “The 1969 Transmissions”.
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Janis Joplin: the singer who screamed a very American pain
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Caserta denounced Going Down With Janis as the pornographic fantasy of Dan Knapp, her co-author, and largely unreliable
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2017· 4 entries
Released album “The Television Broadcast Sessions 1968–1970”.
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Released album “Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1968”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain all died with white Bic lighters in their pockets.” False.
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Released album “30 Most Slow Blues”.
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2016· 5 entries
The Guardian: Michelle Williams set for Janis Joplin biopic
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The Guardian: Janis Joplin remembered – archive, 6 October 1970
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The Guardian: Janis Joplin's Texas childhood home goes on the market for $500,000
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Released album “Janis: Little Girl Blue”.
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Released album “The TV Collection Plus Newport 1968”.
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2015· 1 entry
The biographical documentary film Janis: Little Girl Blue, directed by Amy J
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “The Early Years (1963-65)”.
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2013· 4 entries
Joplin was awarded with the 2,510th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the music industry
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Released album “The 60s: Janis Joplin”.
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2013).
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Washington's Arena Stage featured a production of A Night with Janis Joplin, starring Mary Bridget Davies in which Joplin performs a concert for the audience while telling stories of her past inspirations, including thos
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Piece of My Heart: The Collection”.
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Released album “The Pearl Sessions”.
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Released album “Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968”.
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Released album “Janis – The Classic LP Collection”.
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Released album “Blow All My Blues Away: A Retrospective 1962 - 1970”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “The Ultimate Collection Remastered”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! / Love, Janis”.
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Released album “Ball & Chain”.
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Janis Joplin”.
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2009· 5 entries
Released album “Cry Baby (The Ultimate Collection)”.
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Released album “The Woodstock Experience”.
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Released album “Cry Baby (live at Woodstock)”.
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Joplin was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master concert and lecture series
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Released album “Cry Baby”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Hit Collection”.
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Released album “Piece of My Heart”.
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
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Received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “Collections”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “The Collection: Presenting 3 Original Album Classics”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “The Essential Janis Joplin”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Les Indispensables”.
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Released album “Janis Joplin”.
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Released album “Love, Janis: The Songs, The Letters, The Soul of Janis Joplin”.
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “Simply the Best”.
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Released album “Super Hits”.
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Caserta appeared during a segment about Joplin on 20/20
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Released album “Rare Pearls”.
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Released album “MTV Music History: Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Good Girls to Heaven, Bad Ones to Everywhere”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection”.
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When Alice Echols' biography Scars of Sweet Paradise was published
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Released album “Best of Janis Joplin”.
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Released ep “Rare Pearls”.
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Released album “Mercedes Benz (Rare Tracks 1962-1970)”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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Released album “Janis Joplin - Digitally Remastered”.
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Released album “10 grandes éxitos en versión original”.
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Released album “Live at Winterland ’68”.
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1997· 3 entries
Released album “Absolute Janis”.
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Released album “The Best Of: Janis Joplin Collection”.
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Released album “Light Is Faster Than Sound”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Summertime: Live in Amsterdam”.
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1995· 8 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995).
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Released album “18 Essential Songs”.
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Became the first female solo artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in her first year of eligibility
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Titled This is Janis Joplin 1965
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Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming the first female solo artist to achieve it in her first year of eligibility
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At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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Released album “Mercedes Benz (Best)”.
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Released album “This Is Janis Joplin”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “The Legend”.
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “At Woodstock”.
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Released album “Try 'Just a Little Bit Harder'”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Flower in the Sun”.
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1992· 4 entries
"Janis was trying to kick heroin in Brazil, and one of the nicest things about David was that he wasn't into drugs
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Released album “Magic of Love”.
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Released album “Bye, Bye Baby”.
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The first major biography of Joplin in two decades, Love, Janis, authored by her younger sister Laura Joplin, was published
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Life Is Stronger Than Love”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Rockstars in Concert”.
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Released album “Blow All My Blues Away: A Retrospective 1962-1970”.
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Released album “Live USA”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “STARBOX”.
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Released album “Trouble in Mind”.
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1988· 4 entries
Released album “Golden Highlights”.
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On what would have been Joplin's 45th birthday, the Janis Joplin Memorial, with an original gold, multi-image sculpture of Joplin by Douglas Clark, was dedicated during a ceremony in Port Arthur, Texas
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Released album “Live in San Francisco 1966/67”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Janis Joplin”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Fifteen”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Farewell Song”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Anthology”.
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1975· 2 entries
Shows Joplin arriving in Frankfurt by plane
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Released album “Janis”.
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1973· 3 entries
A "carful of dope dealers" visited a Los Angeles lesbian bar that Caserta had been frequenting
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When few books or filmed interviews of Joplin or her loved ones were accessible to the public
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Released album “Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “In Concert”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released ep “E.P”.
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Released album “Pearl”.
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Released album “The Great Janis”.
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1970· 18 entries
Died 1970-10-04.
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Joplin completed her last recording, "Mercedes Benz", which was recorded in a single take
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Joplin recorded vocals for "Half Moon" and "Cry Baby"
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Near Sunset Sound Recorders, where she began rehearsing and recording her album
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A tombstone—jointly paid for by Joplin and Juanita Green, a registered nurse who as a child had done housework for Bessie Smith—was erected at Smith's previously unmarked grave
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Full Tilt Boogie and Big Brother and the Holding Company both performed at the same concert in the San Diego Sports Arena, which was decades later renamed the Valley View Casino Center
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Joplin made a revealing statement about her sexuality to her friend Richard Hundgen, the Grateful Dead's San Francisco-based road manager, whom she had known since 1966
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Released album “1970-06-28: Transcontinental Pop Festival, Toronto, ON”.
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According to a website maintained by Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew
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“MInha música não é para fazer ninguém se rebelar. É para fazer as pessoas quererem trepar.”
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“You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.”
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“Maybe I won't last as long as other singers, but I think you can destroy your now worrying about tomorrow”
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“Trocaria todos os meus amanhas por um unico dia de ontem.”
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“Costumo ter problemas nos bares por causa de minha aparência. Entao, ou você fica furiosa e vai embora, ou mostra o dinheiro e obriga os idiotas a engolirem você.”
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“Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.”
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Became dismayed when they noticed she was starting to make up stories about herself to enhance a public image as a "zany" (Friedman's description) sex symbol who was constantly searching for a man to love her
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“Às vezes olho para minha própria cara e acho que ela está bem 'rodada'. Mas, considerando tudo pelo que já passei, não me acho tão mal assim.”
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“Tenho medo de acabar me tornando uma dessas velhas bêbadas e roucas, que ficam vadiando pela rua assediando rapazinhos.”
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1969· 5 entries
At the Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, after yelling "Don't fuck with those people
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Released album “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!”.
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Joplin had problems at Madison Square Garden
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Devastating Joplin, Gurley himself did not become clean and sober until 1984
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Released album “Texas International Pop Festival, Volume 3”.
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1968· 1 entry
The album launched Joplin as a star
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Big Brother & The Holding Company”.
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Rose to prominence following an appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company
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Shows her residence as 122 Lyon Street No
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1966· 1 entry
Joplin's bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the San Francisco-based psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, which had gained some renown among the nascent hippie community in Haight-Ashbury
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1965· 1 entry
And 1966, Joplin commuted from her family's Port Arthur home to Beaumont, Texas, where she had regular sessions with a psychiatric social worker named Bernard Giarritano at a counseling agency that was funded by the Unit
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1964· 1 entry
Joplin and future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen recorded a number of blues standards, which incidentally featured Kaukonen's wife Margareta using a typewriter in the background
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1963· 2 entries
Joplin met and briefly lived with Jae Whitaker, a woman whom she had met while playing pool at the bar Gino & Carlo in North Beach
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Joplin was arrested in San Francisco for shoplifting
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1960· 1 entry
And attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, during the summer and later the University of Texas at Austin (UT), although she did not complete her college studies
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-01-19.
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