The 27 Club- Ep. 2: Janis Joplin

This month, your hosts, Ash and Ali, are covering The 27 Club, a list of approximately 75 popular musicians, artists, actors, and other celebrities who all died at the mysterious age of 27. Ali details the stories of the deaths of four young, prolific musicians who all tragically joined the infamous 27 Club.

Ali tells the story of Janis Joplin, aka "The Wild Woman of Blues", who joined the 27 Club in October of 1970, at the height of her career and the psychedelic rock era. Janis, like so many other young rockstars, loved to party, with Southern Comfort and the ever popular drug of the time, heroin, as her party favors of choice. She hung out with other members of the 27 Club including Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. She was mercillesly teased in high school, and her sexual freeness and appetite, and bluesy music, made her quite the controversial character in her time, but one that is beloved by many today.


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