Joplin, Janis (1943-1970)
Regarded as the greatest white female blues singer, Janis Joplin is also remembered as a hedonistic, hard-drinking, bra-disdaining, bisexual challenger of social conventions....
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Janis Joplin's laugh still rings in the memory of a childhood friend.At a gathering to dedicate a historic marker in front of one of the singer's childhood homes, Monteel Copple recalled her friend...
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Janis Joplin's laugh still rings in the memory of a childhood friend.At a gathering to dedicate a historic marker in front of one of the singer's childhood homes, Monteel Copple recalled her friend...
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Keyboardist and songwriter Richard Bell, who played with Janis Joplin, has died of cancer in a Toronto hospital. He was 61.Bell died June 15 after a long battle with multiple myeloma, said his long...
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Hippie counter-culture blossomed as the "Summer of Love" unfolded 40 years ago in San Francisco in Golden Gate Park and the nearby Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.Young people from around the country -...
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Aaron Russo, who managed Bette Midler and went on to produce such films as "Trading Places," has died. He was 64.Russo died from cancer before dawn on Friday, surrounded by family at Cedars-Sinai M...
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Background InfoBorn
John Robert Parker
Ravenscroft
(!) on 30 August 1939,
John
Peel
began his ascent to the pinnacle of DJ-dom in...
America
. As unlikely as it sounds, this icon of British ra...
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If the Summer of Love established San Francisco as the hub of hippiedom, the summer of 2007 may be remembered as a time the country commemorated 1960s counterculture by taking the "counter" out of ...
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If the Summer of Love established San Francisco as the hub of hippiedom, the summer of 2007 may be remembered as a time the country commemorated 1960s counterculture by taking the "counter" out of ...
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Kris Kristofferson, who has written some of country music's most enduring hits, will receive CMT's Johnny Cash Visionary Award, the cable network announced Monday.Rosanne Cash, Cash's daughter, wil...
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Raymond BarrePARIS (AP) _ Raymond Barre, a tough-speaking former French prime minister and economist who refused to bow to protesters or political alliances, died Saturday. He was 83.Barre died at ...
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Joplin, Janis (1943-1970)
New marker for Janis Joplin's Texas home
