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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces the life and career of the iconic music performer, commemorates the anniversary of her death, and draws on anecdotes from friends and bandmates that help examine her relationships, musical themes, and ongoing influence.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 414 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1967, as the new sound of rock and roll was taking over popular music, John Byrne Cooke was at the center of it all. As a member of D.A. Pennebaker's film crew, he witnessed the astonishing breakout performances of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival that June. Less than six months later, he was on a plane to San Francisco, taking a job as road manager for Janis and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. From then...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn't all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the...
7) Janis
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this biography, George-Warren paints a complex portrait of singer Janis Joplin (1943-1970). Drawing on archival materials as well as interviews with Joplin's friends, family, and bandmates, George-Warren begins with Joplin's life, stretching back to her childhood in Port Arthur, Texas. George-Warren explores Joplin's evolution as a singer, including her early incorporation of Otis Redding's vocal techniques into her own performances, as well as...
Author
Publisher
NBM Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
160 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin with the highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. It is one of the most fabulous musical adventures in America of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet it lasted only five years. How did a very young messed up woman, a drug addict filled with doubt, become in a few years a planetary icon of rock music? Thanks to a worldwide...
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