Sex, drugs and song // The troubled life of Janis Joplin

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: March 21, 1999| Author: JONATHAN YARDLEY | Copyright information
Scars of Sweet Paradise The Life and Times of Janis Joplin. By Alice Echols. Metropolitan. $26. Here is yet another serious biography of a significant figure in American popular music, hard on the heels of Peter Guralnick's second volume about Elvis Presley and Michael Lydon's life of Ray Charles. One of the problems these books pose is that much of their subjects' lives was spent on the road in an endless succession of concerts. Getting across the texture of this without merely reciting endles...

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