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Janis Joplin

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Died at 27 years old, making her a member of the "27 Club"; the 27 Club is a group of prominent musicians who died at the age of 27. Other members includeThe Rolling Stones co-founderBrian Jones, guitaristJimi Hendrix,The Doors frontmanJim Morrison, guitaristAlan Wilson,Amy Winehouse andNirvana frontmanKurt Cobain.
Was friends withJimi Hendrix.
Her good friend and former lover,Kris Kristofferson, has on numerous occasions stated that he is absolutely sure she did not commit suicide, but also believes that the course that Janis had chosen to take was a dangerous, self-destructive one, a fact of which he knows she was also aware.
Along withGrace Slick, she was one of the first female rock stars and an important figure in the directed change of rock music in the late 1960s.
Wrote her will shortly before her death. Drawing up the document with her Los Angeles lawyer, she set aside $2500 for her friends to throw a party in the event of her death. After she died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, her friends followed her wishes and threw a party in her honor at a club in San Anselmo, California. The party invitations read: "Drinks are on Pearl". Younger sister Laura Joplin, six years her junior, was among those who attended.

My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go homealone.
[asked by a reporter what "acid rock" was] I wouldn't know. I'm a juicer.
You know, I have to have the umph. I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
They're frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I've never known a one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own.

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