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Janis Joplin Dies At Age 27
1970
Janis Joplin is found dead at the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles after a heroin overdose. She was just 27.
Joplin's road manager John Cooke goes looking for her when she doesn't turn up for a recording session. When there is no answer at her door, he gets the key from the front desk and finds Joplin dead.
The singer had battled heroin addiction and seemed to have it beat, but while recording her Pearl album, she started taking it again in small doses to get her through the sessions. The recordings went well and were nearly finished when Joplin's musicians, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, put down tracks for the last song, "Buried Alive In The Blues." Joplin liked what she heard and planned to do her vocal the next day. Around 11 p.m., she and the band grab some food and a few drinks at Barney's Beanery, and an hour or so later head to the Landmark, where they are staying.
Joplin is usually on time, so when she doesn't show for the session the next day, her producer Paul Rothchild calls Cooke, who enters her room around 8 p.m. The time of death is estimated at 1:40 a.m. Joplin died because the heroin she got that night from a local dealer was nearly pure, about 10 times stronger than what she was used to.
It's an all-too-common tragedy; Jimi Hendrixdied of an overdose less than a month earlier, and in July 1971, Jim Morrison meets a similar fate. All three are 27 when they die.
The Pearl album in released on January 12, 1971. "Buried Alive In The Blues" is left on as an instrumental, and "Mercedes Benz," a song Joplin recorded on a lark her last night alive, is included a capella. The album goes to #1 in America, as does the single "Me And Bobby McGee."
The singer had battled heroin addiction and seemed to have it beat, but while recording her Pearl album, she started taking it again in small doses to get her through the sessions. The recordings went well and were nearly finished when Joplin's musicians, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, put down tracks for the last song, "Buried Alive In The Blues." Joplin liked what she heard and planned to do her vocal the next day. Around 11 p.m., she and the band grab some food and a few drinks at Barney's Beanery, and an hour or so later head to the Landmark, where they are staying.
Joplin is usually on time, so when she doesn't show for the session the next day, her producer Paul Rothchild calls Cooke, who enters her room around 8 p.m. The time of death is estimated at 1:40 a.m. Joplin died because the heroin she got that night from a local dealer was nearly pure, about 10 times stronger than what she was used to.
It's an all-too-common tragedy; Jimi Hendrixdied of an overdose less than a month earlier, and in July 1971, Jim Morrison meets a similar fate. All three are 27 when they die.
The Pearl album in released on January 12, 1971. "Buried Alive In The Blues" is left on as an instrumental, and "Mercedes Benz," a song Joplin recorded on a lark her last night alive, is included a capella. The album goes to #1 in America, as does the single "Me And Bobby McGee."
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