Buy this book on-line JOPLIN, LAURA: : Love JanisLONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1992. ISBN 0747512655.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. 8vo,342pp,contemporary b/w photographs. The first major biography of JANIS JOPLIN for 20 yrs (then 1992).The author LAURA,is Janis's younger sister.Through the eyes of her family and closest friends - we see Janis as a young girl in Port Arthur,TEXAS already rebelling against injustice, racism,hypocrisy in society; discovering JACK KERUOAC and the 'BEATS',and visiting forbidden Cajun bars in search of the blues. We follow her through the 'BEATS' hang-outs of Venice and North Beach,singing in coffee houses and shooting speed to enhance her creativity. Janis truly came into her own in the fantastic psychedelic,acid-soaked world of HAIGHT ASHBURY.
Here is Janis living with members of her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company,hanging out with the GRATEFUL DEAD and Hell's Angels; breaking out in triumphant performances at MONTERAY and in New York City.At the height of her fame Janis's life is a whirlwind of public adoration and hard living - struggling to perfect her art,battling to overcome her alcohol addiction and heroin use,in a world where substance abuse was universal. Contains a series of letters by Janis,that have never previously been published.In them,she conveys,as no-one else could the wild ride from awkward small-town teenager to rock and roll queen. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene,electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seemed to pour her very soul into her music.By the time her life and artistry were cut tragically short by a heroin overdose,Joplin had become the stuff of rock–and–roll legend.
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