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The Resource Pearl : the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography, by Ellis Amburn

Pearl : the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography, by Ellis Amburn

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Summary
  • She came out of the swamps of the Texas-Louisiana border, wailing the blues as no one, black or white, before or after, has ever dared. She was the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture. She was a major fashion trendsetter in the back-to-the-roots movement that began in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and overtook the world. At the same time, she was locked in a doomed search for an increasingly elusive happiness in drugs and fame, sex and money, a
  • Compulsion of truly epic proportions that ultimately destroyed her. To those who knew and loved her intimately, she was Pearl. To an enthralled public, she was Janis Joplin, the greatest female singer in the history of rock and roll. Now, in PEARL, the most definitive biography of rock legend Janis Joplin ever published, bestselling author Ellis Amburn interviews scores of personalities both famous and unknown, travels to the places where Janis was born, lived, and died,
  • And reveals facts about Janis' life and death that have remained in shadow, until now. Here is the real Janis Joplin - both the magic as well as the tragic - as she's never been seen or understood before. Leaving her past as the shy wallflower of Port Arthur, Texas, behind her, Janis followed the lure to San Francisco in 1966. Rocketing to prominence as the electrifying lead vocalist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, she invented her own brand of rock blues at the
  • Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom, later taking her musical gifts higher and wider to a nationwide audience eager to experience Janis as a powerful artist in her own right. Both her music and her life embodied the headlong, revolutionary spirit of the decade. Here is Janis Joplin in all her fascinating complexity, the performer and seeker, addict and alcoholic, at once timid and brash, cowering in inferiority one minute and abandoned to grandiose gestures the next. Though she
  • Could never sustain a love affair, she hurled herself from one relationship to another, from early liaisons with band members and road crew to serious encounters with Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kris Kristofferson, as well as many female lovers. Janis Joplin had more of everything - problems and passion, fame and disgrace, drugs and booze - and attained a super-stardom that, however brief, places her squarely in the first rank of rock immortals, beside Elvis Presley, the
  • Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and Bruce Springsteen. After two decades, she retains this status - a blazing example of one woman's enduring triumph
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 340 pages, [16] pages of plates
Contents
  • l. Town Without Pity: 1943-1962
  • 2. The Anxious Asp: 1963-1965
  • 3. Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1966
  • 4. Down in Monterey: 1967
  • 5. Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills: 1968
  • 6. Queen and Consorts: 1969-1970
  • 7. Kristofferson: 1970
  • 8. Seth Morgan: 1970
  • 9. Drinks Are on Pearl: 1970. Coroner's Report. Discography
Isbn
9780446516402
Instance
Label
Pearl : the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography
Title
Pearl
Title remainder
the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography
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by Ellis Amburn
Creator
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Language
eng
Summary
  • She came out of the swamps of the Texas-Louisiana border, wailing the blues as no one, black or white, before or after, has ever dared. She was the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture. She was a major fashion trendsetter in the back-to-the-roots movement that began in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and overtook the world. At the same time, she was locked in a doomed search for an increasingly elusive happiness in drugs and fame, sex and money, a
  • Compulsion of truly epic proportions that ultimately destroyed her. To those who knew and loved her intimately, she was Pearl. To an enthralled public, she was Janis Joplin, the greatest female singer in the history of rock and roll. Now, in PEARL, the most definitive biography of rock legend Janis Joplin ever published, bestselling author Ellis Amburn interviews scores of personalities both famous and unknown, travels to the places where Janis was born, lived, and died,
  • And reveals facts about Janis' life and death that have remained in shadow, until now. Here is the real Janis Joplin - both the magic as well as the tragic - as she's never been seen or understood before. Leaving her past as the shy wallflower of Port Arthur, Texas, behind her, Janis followed the lure to San Francisco in 1966. Rocketing to prominence as the electrifying lead vocalist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, she invented her own brand of rock blues at the
  • Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom, later taking her musical gifts higher and wider to a nationwide audience eager to experience Janis as a powerful artist in her own right. Both her music and her life embodied the headlong, revolutionary spirit of the decade. Here is Janis Joplin in all her fascinating complexity, the performer and seeker, addict and alcoholic, at once timid and brash, cowering in inferiority one minute and abandoned to grandiose gestures the next. Though she
  • Could never sustain a love affair, she hurled herself from one relationship to another, from early liaisons with band members and road crew to serious encounters with Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kris Kristofferson, as well as many female lovers. Janis Joplin had more of everything - problems and passion, fame and disgrace, drugs and booze - and attained a super-stardom that, however brief, places her squarely in the first rank of rock immortals, beside Elvis Presley, the
  • Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and Bruce Springsteen. After two decades, she retains this status - a blazing example of one woman's enduring triumph
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Amburn, Ellis
Dewey number
  • 782.42166/092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
  • plates
  • photographs
Index
index present
LC call number
ML420.J77
LC item number
A8 1992
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • discographies
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Joplin, Janis
  • Joplin, Janis
  • Joplin, Janis
  • Singers
  • Rock musicians
  • Women rock musicians
  • Rock musicians
  • Singers
  • Women rock musicians
  • United States
  • Biografie
  • Singers
Label
Pearl : the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography, by Ellis Amburn
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Publication
Bibliography note
  • Discography: pages 323-329
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-333) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
l. Town Without Pity: 1943-1962 -- 2. The Anxious Asp: 1963-1965 -- 3. Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1966 -- 4. Down in Monterey: 1967 -- 5. Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills: 1968 -- 6. Queen and Consorts: 1969-1970 -- 7. Kristofferson: 1970 -- 8. Seth Morgan: 1970 -- 9. Drinks Are on Pearl: 1970. Coroner's Report. Discography
Control code
ocm25709433
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 340 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9780446516402
Lccn
91051178
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits, photographs
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o25709433
  • (OCoLC)25709433
Label
Pearl : the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography, by Ellis Amburn
Publication
Bibliography note
  • Discography: pages 323-329
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-333) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
l. Town Without Pity: 1943-1962 -- 2. The Anxious Asp: 1963-1965 -- 3. Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1966 -- 4. Down in Monterey: 1967 -- 5. Sex, Dope, and Cheap Thrills: 1968 -- 6. Queen and Consorts: 1969-1970 -- 7. Kristofferson: 1970 -- 8. Seth Morgan: 1970 -- 9. Drinks Are on Pearl: 1970. Coroner's Report. Discography
Control code
ocm25709433
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 340 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9780446516402
Lccn
91051178
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits, photographs
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o25709433
  • (OCoLC)25709433

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