“I don’t think Janis was living a life with the inevitability of death. She was getting cleaner and stronger”: The turbulent story of how Janis Joplin tried and failed to get off the rock’n’roll rollercoaster

Janis Joplin posing for a photograph in 1970.

Janis Joplin was one of the great figures of American rock’n’roll – a wild performer with an incredible voice, whose life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of 27. In 2015, Classic Rock looked back on Joplin’s early years and the birth of the legend.