Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. It reached number one on the Billboard charts. A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). Her most popular songs include her cover versions of " Piece of My Heart", " Cry Baby", " Down on Me", " Ball and Chain", " Summertime", and her original song " Mercedes Benz", her final recording. Five singles by Joplin reached the US Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song " Me and Bobby McGee", which reached number one in March 1971. She appeared at the 1969 Woodstock festival and on the Festival Express train tour. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. In 1967, Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. One of the most successful and widely known rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence. We are not sure of the dates of Ike & Tina’s stand at ‘The Hungry i’, but on October 4, 1970, Janis passed away in Los Angeles, aged just 27.Janis Lyn Joplin (Janu– October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. When asked if she ever performed with Janis, she answered: “No, but Janis came and spent the last week with me before she passed.” In the interview, Tina mentions that Janis spent the last week of her life watching the revue’s shows at ‘The Hungry i’ in San Francisco.Īpparently, Janis would come to see the show several times during the week. In a 2000 Canadian radio interview on channel CHUM FM, Tina however didn’t seem to recall their duet. In 2009, this album was re-released with the opening sets of Ike & Tina and BB King, but the duet of Tina and Janis was not featured! These shows were also released as the live album ‘Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out’ in 1970. Some footage of the show appears for example in the 1970 Rolling Stones documentary ‘Gimme Shelter’. This is very strange, since these shows were taped by the Stones. While many photos of that appearance exist, no recording has surfaced as of yet. The duet apparently wasn’t planned – during Land of 1,000 Dances, Janis simply couldn’t contain herself anymore, and jumped on stage (maybe also influenced by the ‘treats’ that the Stones had for their guests backstage). Ike & Tina were one of the opening acts for the Rolling Stones, Janis was watching them from the wings. The moment that Janis had been waiting for finally came on Novem(the day after Tina’s 30th birthday), when Janis joined Ike & Tina on stage at Madison Square Garden. They did finally appear on his show in 1972. Asked who she goes to see when she wants to see a really good concert, she answers: “Tina Turner – she’s the best chick ever!” Cavett replies that he doesn’t know who Tina is, another example to illustrate the obscurity of Ike & Tina at that time. On July 18, 1969, Janis appeared on the Dick Cavett TV-show. “I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, ‘Honey, you can’t continue to sing like that or you’ll have no voice ” Music film director Michael Wadleigh mentions in an interview that he was there when Tina and Janis first met each other. Janis would often go to watch Ike & Tina’s shows. Still, Janis knew about Tina and was highly influenced by her power and singing style. When Janis first entered the music scene in the mid-1960s, Tina had already been performing and recording for more than five years, although still very unknown in the United States.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |