Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was revealed this week that Michelle Williams is in talks to play singer Janis Joplin in a biopic entitled Janis, to be ...

Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley will play Janis Joplin in an upcoming film about the rock musician’s life, making her the latest of many actresses that have been attached to play Joplin in various ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joplin emerged from Port Arthur, Texas in the 1960s with a big voice and a head full of the blues — both blues music from black ...

A close friend of Janis Joplin said the singer didn't die by an overdose, and offered her theory as to what happened. Joplin was found dead on the floor of her Hollywood hotel room in October 1970, ...

NEW YORK - CIRCA 1968: Singer Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company perform onstage at the Fillmore East circa 1968 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Julie Snow/Michael Ochs ...

Anyone who heard Janis Joplin's knockout performance on Big Brother and the Holding Company's 1968 album Cheap Thrills knew she wouldn't be sticking around for long. Her voice, her charisma, just ...

Janis Joplin was a beloved rock and roll icon, even years before her tragic OD death. Her passionate music, colorful spirit and immeasurable talent made her unforgettable to every person that met her.

One of the most famous rockers of the mid-1960s, Janis Joplin’s life was cut tragically short when she passed away from a heroin overdose in 1970. Though only in the spotlight for a few years, as her ...

There’s a quote that haunts the legacy of the late singer Janis Joplin. “Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people,” Joplin once said. “Then I go home alone.” Those words seem to encapsulate perfectly the ...

This iconic Bette Midler song was part of a major film, although the song was initially rejected multiple times.

In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music." It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in Janis, her new biography of the ...

Saturday would have been Janis Joplin's 70th birthday. Joplin was dubbed the first queen of rock 'n' roll, and her voice is singular. She was rough around the edges, vulnerable and charismatic, and ...