But there won't be any answers this far along. Later reports confirmed she had died of a heroin overdose and suffered the other wounds when she collapsed. Somebody did come into the room, remove her stash, and then return and replace it. I still think someone pushed her accidentally and then fled. However, some of her friends believe that the cause of death listed in the official report might be wrong. Unfortunately, she had a history of drug abuse and was using when she died. Yes, the smack was very pure and there was a record number of smack related deaths in the LA area that w/end. On October 4, 1970, the American singer Janis Joplin was discovered dead at the young age of 27. She began using when recording "Pearl" and used it intermittently. 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. She was addicted for most of 1969 and kicked it. When Mick said, "This next number asks the question do you want to live with me?", she screamed from onstage, "You don't have the balls!" She did too know what she was doing w/heroin. Her sad death is the one main fact many people know about her - but for true. The cause of his death remains a mystery. She did a duet w/Tina and harrassed the band backstage and onstage. Arts correspondent, BBC News It's 50 years since Janis Joplin died of an overdose in Los Angeles aged only 27. Joplins heavy drug addiction led to her accidental heroin overdose in 1970. There is > also a story that the smack wasn't cut enough, and > that other people died from the same batch. Apparently she bought it when depressed > about getting dumped by her boyfriend. She didn't really > know what she was doing with heroin, and rarely > used it. She was 27 years old.Zack Wrote: - > Her death was a total waste. But, she died of a combination heroin and alcohol overdose in her L.A. 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. Had Janis Joplin lived, she wouldve turned 77 in January 2020. 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. In a new book, Peggy Caserta, a close friend of the late Janis Joplin, offers insight into her claims that the blues singer’s death was not actually caused by a drug overdose. 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. ”I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” she once said in comparing herself to one of her musical idols. She soon split off to launch a solo career, however, her personality and her voice being far too big to be contained within a group. It was with this group that she would become famous, first through her legendary performance of “Ball And Chain” at Monterey and then with the 1968 album Cheap Thrills. My God I hope they don’t bring her back here for the funeral. Because if this, the sentiment after her death was not totally unexpected. She’d gone from complete unknown to generational icon on the strength of a single, blistering performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in the summer of 1967, and she’d followed that up with three years of touring and recording that cemented her status as, in the words of one critic, “second only to Bob Dylan in importance as a creator/recorder/embodiment of her generation’s history and mythology.”īorn in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943, Janis Joplin made her way to San Francisco in 1966, where she fell in with a local group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. Her death went unnoticed or ignored by most of the populace, who knew only that she was some kind of hippie singer who was ungrateful to her Port Arthur heritage and who had occasionally maligned their town. In the summer of 1966, Janis Joplin was a drifter four years later, she was a rock-and-roll legend.
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