In 'Janis,' Joplin Shown To Be A Tangle Of Talents, Contradictions And Mythology
Holly George-Warren's research, eye for detail, illuminating contextualization and clear delivery make for a far more rounded and convincing image of the musician's precocity than seen previously.
In 1969, Newsweek bestowed this honorific on Janis Joplin: "The first female superstar of rock music."
It's also a claim that Holly George-Warren sets out to prove in , her new biography of the iconic Texan singer who rocketed to fame after becoming the frontwoman of the San Francisco blues-rock group Big Brother and the Holding Company â only to die four years later at the age of 27, a casualty of the
