Love, Laura; Laura Joplin talks about Janis Joplin, the woman the world knows as a free spirit rocker and icon but the person she knew as her big sis.(ENTERTAINMENT)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Preston, Rohan | Copyright information

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer

To the world, Janis Joplin is the rock-and-roll icon whose voice, by turns gritty and ethereal, can be heard on such hits as "Piece of My Heart," "Try," and "Mercedes Benz." When she died from an overdose of heroin and alcohol in a Los Angeles motel in 1970, she was 27. To Laura Joplin, who grew up with Janis in the family's Port Arthur, Texas, home, Janis is the big sis, lost all too soon.

She vividly remembers Janis goi...

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