Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
Out of the Texas-Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. She was Janis Joplin—the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots movement that overtook the world, a prisoner of an ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame.\ \ \ To those who knew and loved her, she was Pearl. To an enthralled generation of youth, she was Janis Joplin, the...
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Out of the Texas-Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. She was Janis Joplin—the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots movement that overtook the world, a prisoner of an ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame.
AcknowledgmentslTown Without Pity: 1943-196212The Anxious Asp: 1963-1965433Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1966644Down in Monterey: 19671195Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills: 19681576Queen and Consorts: 1969-19701927Kristofferson: 19702468Seth Morgan: 19702799Drinks Are on Pearl: 1970308Epilogue311Appendices321Coroner's ReportDiscographyBibliography330Index334
