Two legends with strongly contrasting styles butt heads in the opening round Ultimate Classic Rock Hall of Fame battle between Pink Floyd and Janis Joplin. Each month, our readers will determine which of eight legendary artists or bands is immortalized forever for their contributions to classic rock history.
Teen pop heartthrob Justin Bieber has seen better weeks, but the music of Janice -- make that Janis Joplin -- seems to have him on the mend.
Today (Jan. 19) would have been Janis Joplin's 70th birthday. To honor her, Ultimate Classic Rock is teaming up with Legacy recordings to give one lucky winner a copy of the 'Janis Joplin - the Classic LP collection,' box set on vinyl.
Janis Joplin's rise and fall has been widely documented, from books to stage plays to an upcoming biopic. But all you need to know about her tragic life -- she died at the age of 27 of a heroin overdose -- is right there in her voice, chronicled on just four albums during her lifetime: two with lumbering San Francisco blues-rockers Big Brother and the Holding Company and two as a solo artist.There's pain, joy and a sense that everything could come crash
The life of late vocalist Janis Joplin has been the subject of much discussion in Hollywood over the years, and it looks like a biopic on the singer will finally get made. According to the Hollywood Reporter, director Lee Daniels is in talks to oversee 'Get It While You Can,' with 'The Master' actress Amy Adams attached to star as the music icon.
Janis Joplin, solo star and singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, died at age 27 on Oct. 4, 1970 of a heroin overdose. The distinctive vocalist had endured a long history of drug and alcohol problems.
It's taken producer Peter Newman over a decade to bring the sad final months of Janis Joplin's life to the big screen, but now it seems he'll get his chance. Deadline announced today that 'Joplin,' a film focused on the singer's last six months, will begin filming early next year and star Tony Award winning actress Nina Arianda.
Janis Joplin is already a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and now the late singer is getting her due in Hollywood. She's been named as one the inductees into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Less than a year before her untimely death, Janis Joplin was arrested in Tampa, Fla. on Nov. 17, 1969 for disorderly conduct as a result of her behavior at a concert the evening before.
The singer apparently had a bunch of less-than-flattering
Columbia Janis Joplin is one of only a few female artists featured on our list of the Top 100 Classic Rock Songs. But as Jim Morrison can tell you, Joplin wasn't intimidated by any man, woman or child.
