OHMYGOSSIP — Janis Joplin was “always destined” to become a “sky-rocket chick”, according to her biographer.
Alice Echols believes that the iconic musician – who died 50 years ago on Sunday (04.10.20) – was determined not to live a “risk-averse” lifestyle as her parents had done.
Alice said: “There was no-one like her then and maybe still isn’t. But the key thing about Janis, and other performers of the time, such as Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, is that they were in revolt against a system.
“They’d seen their parents living a risk-averse lifestyle and Janis was desperate to avoid a life which would be diminished in the ways theirs had been.
“She was always going to be this sky-rocket chick: she ran with the rough crowd and she drank hard and she lived hard.”
Joplin was just 27 when she passed away after a drug overdose and Echols believes there was a “less obvious” side to her life.
She said: “There’s a less obvious side too – for instance that she was very well-read. But she died young and in her short lifetime she was never forthcoming with heroin and with other women. In many ways she’s a tough proposition for a biographer.”
Alice, who wrote ‘Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin’, also believes that Janis was a keen student of music but didn’t disclose it as she wanted to maintain her rock-chick persona.
She recalled: “Interviewing people for my book I realised she’d actually been quite a serious student of music. But she was never open about that in public because the image was always wild and raunchy rock-chick.”
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