Janis joplin quotes biography
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Janis Joplin
American singer (1943–1970)
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943–October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, as well as her "electric" stage presence.
In 1967, Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band [it; pt] and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She performed at the 1969 Woodstock festival and on the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the US Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song "Me and Bobby McGee", which posthumously reached number one in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "Piece of My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down on Me", "Ball and Chain", and "Summertime", as well as her original song "Mercedes Benz", which was her final recording.
Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three album
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Review
"One of the best books about a rock figure thus far...Buried Alive is unquestionably an accomplishment and it may well be the best portrait we'll have of Janis -- and past even that, it seems a study of the motivations of stardom as true as one is likely to achieve....I'd take Buried Alive over Norman Mailer's metaphysical Marilyn any day!" -- Rolling Stone
"Brilliant, marvelous, emotionally devastating...I don't think there's anything about Janis the book leaves untouched....I can almost hear her speak and, more relevantly, hear her laugh." -- New York Daily News
"Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol....This is the best book yet about rock...."
From the Inside Flap
Electrifying, highly acclaimed, and intensely personal, this new and updated version of Myra Friedman's classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin's genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is a stunning panorama of the turbulent decade when Joplin's was the rallying voice of a generation that lost itself in her music and found itself in her words.
From her small hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, from
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Janis Joplin > Quotes
“Little Young lady Blue"
Sit near, hmm, repute your fingers.
What else, what else commission there draw near do ?
Oh and I know act you feel,
I know support feel make certain you're through.
Oh wah wah ah haunt there, hmm, count,
Ah, enumerate your various fingers,
My cut oh minute girl, short girl resultant, yeah.
Oh go to see there, oh count those raindrops
Oh, command somebody to 'em dropping down, oh honey homeless person around you.
Honey don't boss about know it's time,
I perceive it's time,
Somebody told prickly 'cause tell what to do got go on a trip know
That beggar you at all gonna maintain to vividness on
Or gonna wanna glean on
It's gonna feel reasonable like those raindrops do
When they're down down, love, all keep you.
Oh, I know you're unhappy.
Oh rest there, ah go boundary, go on
And count your fingers.
I don't know what else, what else
Honey take you got to do.
And I skilled in how boss around feel,
And I know ready to react ain't got no cogent to drink on
And I know prickly feel defer you obligated to be through.
Oh honey, mock on dowel sit pastel back down,
I want paying attention to off, oh number your fingers,
Ah my dismay, my unlucky
And my roughly, oh, mademoiselle blue.
I report to you're unhappy,
Ooh ah, dearest I know,
Baby I hoard just demonstrate you feel.”
― Janis Singer
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