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Janis Joplin

June 2024

  • Janis Joplin on stage in 1968

    ‘She knew where she wanted to go – and just kept going’: the real Janis Joplin, by those closest to her

    She was the epitome of Summer of Love chic – and became overshadowed by tragedy. But as her raw power is celebrated on stage in London, her family and bandmates explain there was far more to the singer than her legend

January 2023

  • A pro-Ukrainian demonstration in London last year.

    Brief letters
    Learning Ukrainian as a sign of solidarity

    Brief letters: Anti-Putin resistance | Time for brief letters | Junior stargazing events | Housework solution | Leonard Cohen and Janis Joplin

August 2019

  • Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.

    'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs

  • Humping Hendrix … the poster for Monterey Pop, the documentary featuring 1967 festival acts Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and the Who.

    How we made
    'It felt like a wonderful dream' – DA Pennebaker on making Monterey Pop

April 2019

  • Browsers in Rough Trade East, Brick Lane, London on Record Store Day 2018.

    Record Store Day: 20 exclusive releases to look out for

    Classic vinyl reissues, limited collectors’ editions and unreleased recordings from Fela Kuti, Prince and David Bowie join rare pressings by the Prodigy and the Notorious BIG this Saturday

February 2019

  • ‘This marriage had come to an end – and boy did it show’ … the Beatles’ last photo session, in August 1969.

    My best shot
    'I took the last ever shot of the Beatles – and they were miserable!'

    The Fab Four’s farewell, the Rolling Stones’ airlift out of Altamont, the Who’s infamous toilet stop … the great rock photographer Ethan Russell relives his legendary moments

March 2018

  • In this Oct. 12, 1978 file photo, attendants carry the body of 20-year-old Nancy Spungen, of Philadelphia, from the Hotel Chelsea in New York, allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend, The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious.

    Chelsea Hotel room doors of Bob Marley and Andy Warhol go under the hammer

    Guernsey’s will be auctioning off up to 55 hotel room doors from the Chelsea Hotel, where artists and musicians such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan frequently stayed in its heyday

January 2018

  • Janis Joplin in full flow

    Janis Joplin: the singer who screamed a very American pain

  • Spotify have been hit with another in a string of lawsuits.

    Spotify sued for $1.6bn in unpaid royalties as it reportedly files for IPO

October 2017

  • Exhilarated and Exhausted by Neal Preston, published by Reel Art Press Elton John, Los Angeles 1974 This shot is a perfect example of what I like to call a " happy accident”. I happened to catch Elton John just as he came out of his dressing room at the Forum in LA in 1974. I literally shot this from the hip with a 24mm lens. It looks like he’s alone but there were plenty of other people around; luckily I got the framing just right.

    Access all areas: rock photography by Neal Preston – in pictures

    Rock photographer Neal Preston talks about his most impressive shots

May 2017

  • High times: dancing during the Summer of Love, San Francisco, 1967.

    Golden daze: 50 years on from the Summer of Love

    It’s the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s Summer of Love. Here five people who were at the heart of the counter-culture movement tell Aaron Millar how flowers, LSD, music and radical ideas changed youth consciousness forever

October 2016

  • Michelle Williams

    Michelle Williams set for Janis Joplin biopic

  • Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970).

    From the Guardian archive
    Janis Joplin remembered – archive

August 2016

  • V&A Exhibition - You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 E.3832-2004 Poster White Rabbit; ‘White Rabbit’, psychedelic poster published by East Totem West; USA, 1960s East Totem West USA 1960s

    Acid trips, black power and computers: how San Francisco’s hippy explosion shaped the modern world

    You Say You Want a Revolution, the V&A’s new exhibition, explores the birth of late-1960s counterculture that helped spawn Silicon Valley. Alex Needham takes a tour of where it all began, guided by former hippies and subversive visionaries

June 2016

  • Janis Joplin spent her childhood in conservative Port Arthur, Texas.

    Janis Joplin's Texas childhood home goes on the market for $500,000

  • File photo of British singer Amy Winehouse performing at the Glastonbury Festival 2008 in Somerset in south west England<br>British singer Amy Winehouse performs at the Glastonbury Festival 2008 in Somerset in south west England in this June 28, 2008 file photo. A highly-anticipated documentary about the late British singer Amy Winehouse has premiered in her hometown London, where friends and fellow musicians paid tribute to the six-time Grammy Award winner. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/Files

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs with extraordinary vocals

May 2016

  • F-CTC5550<br>JANIS JOPLIN SINGER & MUSICIAN 01/05/1970 CTC5550

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: share songs with extraordinary vocals

    Our reader suggests Janis Joplin or Freddie Mercury as jumping off points: make your suggestion in the comments and they’ll pick a playlist next week
  • Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tom Roth in The Hateful Eight.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    The Hateful Eight; Room; A War; Welcome to Me; Janis: Little Girl Blue; Welcome to Leith – review

    Quentin Tarantino’s western locks eight of the usual suspects in a cabin together, but none can match Brie Larson for captivating viewing
  • JAM Inc Jeffrey Jampol

    'This is the pop culture legacy business': JAM Inc manages artists after death

    Jeffrey Jampol has become the go-to guy for managing rock estates, preventing the kind of legal chaos that has paralysed many legends’ fortunes

March 2016

  • Bob Dylan

    Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns review – Dylan, Hendrix, Joplin and the wonder of Woodstock

    A kind of Lourdes for musicians – stories of songwriting brilliance, hipster shysters and extraordinary excess abound in this enjoyable study of the New York upstate village
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