Janis Joplin's life was short but packed with incident. She fronted a few different bands, had two hit albums and appeared at Woodstock, Monterey and other major rock festivals, all in the space of a couple of years. Joplin died in 1970 at the age of 27. As well as inspiring the Bette Midler movie...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM on May 16, 2018