Saturday marks the birthday of the late,great Janis Joplin-she was born January 19,1943 in Texas.She joined Big Brother and The holding Company in 1966 and at the Monterey Pop Festival in the following year,she became an overnight star.Their first major album"Cheap Thrills" contained the classic "Piece of my Heart"(great breakup song by the way)and she was working on her final album,"Pearl"(her nickname) when she died of a heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of 27.Her drug use and drinking was a battle she fought constantly and it is rumored that some of the Southern Comfort bottles she swigged from openly were filled with codeine syrup.She was a phenonemal blues singer and helped to define the music of that era.
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