Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin - Softcover

Amburn, Ellis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446395064 ISBN 13: 9780446395069

Publisher: Warner Books, 1993

Synopsis

Nobody sang the blues hotter, lived the 60s wilder, or rocked harder than Janis Joplin.

Out of the Texas-Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. She was Janis Joplin - the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots movement that overtook the world, a prisoner of an ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame.

Now, for the first time ever, bestselling author Ellis Amburn interviews scores of personalities both famous and unknown, travels to the places where Janis was born, lived, and died, and reveals facts about Janis's life and death that have languished in shadow. Here is the tragic, the magic, and, most of all, the real Janis Joplin - the greatest female singer in the history of rock and roll.

About this title

Product Description:

Pearl: the Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin To those who knew and loved her, she was Pearl. To an enthralled generation of youth, she was Janis Joplin, the first rock superstar of the '60s--locked into a doomed search for satisfaction. Pearl gives readers the real Janis, including never-before-known facts about her death. 16 pages of rare photos. Full description

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0446395064
• ISBN 13: 9780446395069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372