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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the brief, electrifying career of Janis Joplin with a week of events building up to a tribute concert.

ALFRED MUSIC PUBLISHING'S new The Boomer's Book of Classic Rock Guitar: '60s-'70s contains 66 songs, arranged in easy guitar TAB, by the greatest artists of the '60s and '70s including The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, the Grateful Dead, Blind Faith, Harry Chapin, Sly and the Family Stone, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Buffalo Springfield, Derek and the Dominos, The Kinks, Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Janis Joplin, The Allman Brothers, Cream, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and many others.

Joe Boyd assembled a wonderful documentary about Jimi Hendrix, and Howard Alk did a great job with his film on Janis Joplin.

Richardson sings just like Janis Joplin but, when she tried to rouse the crowd with her awful attempt at a Scottish accent, she sounded more like Liam Gallagher after one too many beers.

In August 1969, an estimated 400,000 young people gathered in a field near the village of Bethel, New York State, to hear some of the biggest performers of the period including Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and Ravi Shankar.

The biographer, who ironically penned a book about Kurt Cobain - who lost his life at 27, tells Life + Style magazine, "She told me she feared she'd die at age 27 (her current age), just like other music stars, like Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain.

But it's not as if I was a stage animal like Janis Joplin or the Rolling Stones

BETH Ditto, charismatic Gossip front woman and ardent Janis Joplin fan, narrates the story of one of the greatest female rockers.