Als Franz Biberkopf aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wird, schwört er, ein anständiges Leben zu führen. Er verdingt sich als ...

In den 1970er Jahren erreichten Musik und Film neue Höhen an Einfluss und Ausdruckskraft und hinterließen gleichzeitig ein Vermächtnis von Künstlern, deren Einfluss weit über ihr viel zu frühes Leben ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. By Richard Sandomir Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ...

Randal Myler didn't have to guess what Janis Joplin was thinking when he sat down to create a play about her life. The New York director/ playwright based his work on a collection of letters Joplin ...

9-28-68: Big Brother and the Holding Company were scheduled to play a sold-out show at downtown's Community Concourse. The afternoon before the show, their singer Janis Joplin announced to the press ...

Janis Joplin has passed into the realm of legend: an outwardly brash and inwardly vulnerable personality who possessed one of the most passionate voices in rock history. She is beloved around the ...

When Janis Joplin purchased a 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet in 1968, it was a slightly worn, plain white paint job. It didn’t stay that way for long, instead becoming the blank canvas from which Joplin ...