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The undisputed queen of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, Janis Joplin was the "skyrocket chick" of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin at the age of twenty-seven in October 1970, the dreams of her generation crashed and burned with her.
Now Alice Echols pushes beyond the legendary Joplin - the red-hot mama of her own invention - and the equally familiar portrait of the screwed-up star victimized by the era she symbolized. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, Echols reveals how this sweet-voiced girl from Texas re-created herself, first as a gravelly-voiced bluesy folksinger, and then as rock 'n' roll's first female superstar.
She examines the roots of Joplin's musicianship and her efforts, both onstage and off, to live on what she called "the outer limits of probability," drinking and carousing like one of the guys, declaring herself the first "white-black" person, and pursuing sex with men and women alike.
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
2002, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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4444409630 9784444409636
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Scars of Sweet Paradise
June 7, 2001, Virago Press Ltd
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1860497292 9781860497292
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
2000, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
February 15, 2000, Owl Books
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in English
0805053948 9780805053944
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
2000, Holt & Company, Henry
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1466839791 9781466839793
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Scars of sweet paradise: the life and times of Janis Joplin
1999, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt
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0805053875 9780805053876
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Includes discography (p. [317]-323), bibliographical references, and index.
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"What's happening never happens there" was how Janis summed up life in her hometown."
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