Janis Joplin would have turned 80: live fast and die young

He studied Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, where he began to drink excessively and associate with dangerous people. Escaping from that world, she moved to San Francisco, she managed to leave bad companies behind, but it was not like that with alcohol. She began to associate with musicians from the bands The Grateful Dead Y Jefferson AirplaneHowever, he did not take advantage of the opportunity that this presented to him to get into the world of music. He plunged into the world of drugs and physically abandoned himself, weighing only 35 kg.

The fleeting and eternal success of Janis Joplin

After a brief marriage with Peter LeBlanc met the producer chet helms who included it in the project “Big Brother and The Holding Company” that in 1966 he recorded his first album. The success of this group raised Janis’s self-esteem that she began to take care of her appearance and agree to perform live accompanying her old friends from The Grateful Dead Y Jefferson Airplane.

In 1967 he appeared at the monterey festivalthe public expected to see The Who, Mamas and the Papas, Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, but when Janis began to sing “Ball And Chain” the public exploded and it was her consecration. Critics agreed that the band was not up to such talent, Chet Helms put together another band for him Kozmic Blues Band with which he recorded his second album.

After a successful tour of Europe, he returned to the US for what would unknowingly be the peak of his career. Woodstock 1969, of which he was one of its main figures. Janis started a heroin detox that was successful, thereby building confidence in other producers, Albert Grossmann proposed a new band made up of virtuoso musicians, the Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Janis died on October 4, 1970, she was found dead, lying on the floor next to her bed. The official cause of her death was a heroin overdose, probably under the influence of alcohol. The posthumous album “Pearl!” It was a sales success and stayed at No. 1 for 14 weeks. The song “Buried Alive in the Blues” was left unfinished with the singer’s tragic death, although it was eventually included as an instrumental on her latest album as a posthumous tribute.

The 27 Club

Jimi Hendrix he had succumbed three weeks before Joplin. Both musicians entered the posthumous group of rock legends who died suddenly at the height of their brief career. “Live fast and die young” could be the motto of the members of the fateful “Club of 27” Alan Wilson, Brian Jones, Robert Johnson and later on Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.