Editing Janis Joplin (section)

===Legacy in the 1970s===
Joplin's death in October 1970 at age 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world, especially when coupled with the deaths of [[Canned Heat]] singer [[Alan Wilson (musician)|Alan Wilson]] a month earlier, and rock icon [[Jimi Hendrix]] 16 days earlier, both aged 27. All three musicians performed at the two biggest rock festivals of the 1960s: [[Monterey International Pop Festival|Monterey Pop Festival]] and [[Woodstock]]. (This would later cause some people to attribute significance to the death of musicians at the age of 27, as celebrated in the "[[27 Club]]".) Music historian Tom Moon wrote that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice", music columnist [[Jon Pareles]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that Joplin as an artist was "overpowering and deeply vulnerable" and author [[Megan Terry]] said that Joplin was the female version of [[Elvis Presley]] in her ability to captivate an audience.<ref name="Joplin's Shooting Star" /> Joplin was noted for her powerful [[mezzo-soprano]] vocals with a distinctive rock and roll rasping vocal quality, as well as her "electric" stage presence.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/janis-joplin/biography |title=Janis Joplin Biography |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |first=Mark |last=Kemp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220092845/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/janis-joplin/biography |archive-date=February 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Janis-Joplin |title=Janis Joplin |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |first=Gillian G. |last=Gaar |date=February 9, 2000 |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-date=March 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324073936/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Janis-Joplin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://rockhall.com/exhibits/featured-collections/janis-joplin/ |title=Janis Joplin Collection |work=[[Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312055213/https://rockhall.com/exhibits/featured-collections/janis-joplin/ |archive-date=March 12, 2012}}</ref> Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "[[Piece of My Heart]]", "[[Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)|Cry Baby]]", "[[Down on Me (traditional song)|Down on Me]]", "[[Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton song)|Ball and Chain]]", and "[[Summertime (George Gershwin song)|Summertime]]", as well as her original song "[[Mercedes Benz (song)|Mercedes Benz]]", which was her final recording.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/the-10-best-janis-joplin-songs/mercedes-benz/ |date=September 23, 2015 |title=The 10 best Janis Joplin songs |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=April 5, 2018 |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621044737/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/the-10-best-janis-joplin-songs/mercedes-benz/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/janis-joplin-songs/ |title=Top 10 Janis Joplin Songs |first=Michael |last=Gallucci |work=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=January 19, 2013 |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-date=May 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504175446/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/janis-joplin-songs/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

A book about Joplin by her publicist Myra Friedman titled ''Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin'' (1973)<ref>{{cite book |title=Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin |first=Myra |last=Friedman |date=1974 |url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/buried-alive-myra-friedman/1100620841 |isbn=978-0-6880-0160-5 |publisher=HarperCollins |access-date=August 4, 2016 |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806105632/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/buried-alive-myra-friedman/1100620841 |url-status=live }}</ref> was excerpted in many newspapers. At the same time, Peggy Caserta's memoir, ''Going Down With Janis'' (1973),<ref>{{cite book |title=Going down with Janis |last1=Caserta |first1=Peggy |author-link1=Peggy Caserta |last2=Knapp |first2=Dan |date=1974 |isbn=978-0-4401-3194-6 |publisher=Random House |url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/going-down-with-janis-peggy-caserta/1018324813?ean=9780440131946 |access-date=August 4, 2016 |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806112811/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/going-down-with-janis-peggy-caserta/1018324813?ean=9780440131946 |url-status=live }}</ref> attracted much attention; its provocative title is a reference to Caserta's claim that she had engaged in oral sex with Joplin while they were high on heroin in September 1970. The description provided by Dan Knapp, Caserta's co-author whom she denounced decades later,<ref name="vulture.com" /><ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta" /> repelled many people in 1973 when few books or filmed interviews of Joplin or her loved ones were accessible to the public. Joplin's bandmate [[Sam Andrew]] described Caserta as "halfway between a [[groupie]] and a friend" in an interview with writer [[Ellis Amburn]].<ref name="amburn" /> Soon after the 1973 publication of ''Going Down With Janis'', Joplin's friends learned that graphic descriptions of sexual acts and intravenous drug use were not the only portions of the book that would haunt them.

According to Kim Chappell, a close friend of Caserta and Joplin, Caserta's book angered the Los Angeles heroin dealer whom she had described in detail in her book, including the make and model of his car.<ref name="amburn" /> According to Amburn, in 1973, a "carful of dope dealers" visited a Los Angeles lesbian bar that Caserta had been frequenting.<ref name="amburn" /> Chappell, who was in the alley behind the bar, stated: "I was stabbed because, when Peggy's book came out, her dealer, the same one who'd given Janis her last fix, didn't like it that he was referred to and was out to get Peggy. He couldn't find her, so he went for her lover. When they realized who I was, they felt that my death would also hit Peggy, and so they stabbed me."<ref name="amburn" /> Despite being "stabbed three times in the chest, puncturing both lungs," Chappell eventually recovered.<ref name="amburn" />

According to Joplin's biographers, Caserta was among many friends of Joplin who did not become clean and sober until a long time after Joplin's death, while others died from overdoses.<ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta" /><ref name="vulture.com" /><ref name="scars" /><ref name="buried" /> Although the wife of Big Brother guitarist James Gurley, who was Joplin's close friend, died from a heroin overdose in 1969, devastating Joplin,<ref name="amburn" /> Gurley himself did not become clean and sober until 1984.<ref name="amburn" /> Caserta survived "a near-fatal OD in December 1995", wrote [[Alice Echols]].<ref name="scars" /> On January 13, 2000, Caserta appeared during a segment about Joplin on ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]]''.<ref>{{YouTube|xyTESUQWfV0|20/20 segment entitled "Downtown" originally broadcast on the ABC network on January 13, 2000}}</ref> In 2018, Caserta denounced ''Going Down With Janis'' as the pornographic fantasy of Dan Knapp, her co-author, and largely unreliable. During that year, the public had its first access to her own story via a memoir she co-wrote with Maggie Falcon titled ''I Ran into Some Trouble''.  It describes a long, friendly relationship with Joplin that only occasionally featured sexuality.<ref name="vulture.com" /><ref name="The redemption of Peggy Caserta" /><ref name="978-1-948018-08-1">{{cite book |last1=Caserta |first1=Peggy |author-link1=Peggy Caserta |last2=Falcon |first2=Maggie |title=I Ran Into Some Trouble |date=August 8, 2018 |publisher=Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing |isbn=978-1-948018-08-1 |language=en}}</ref>

[[The Mamas & the Papas]]' song "Pearl" (1971), from their album ''[[People Like Us (The Mamas & the Papas album)|People Like Us]]'', was a tribute to Joplin. [[Leonard Cohen]]'s song "[[New Skin for the Old Ceremony#Songs|Chelsea Hotel#2]]" (1974) is about Joplin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/bbctrans.htm |title=Leonard Cohen on BBC Radio |work=webheights.net |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090707111733/http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/bbctrans.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 7, 2009}}</ref> Lyricist [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]] has commented that [[Jerry Garcia]]'s "Birdsong", from his first solo album, ''[[Garcia (album)|Garcia]]'' (1972), is about Joplin and the end of her suffering through death.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/mt0011923342 |title=Birdsong |work=AllMusic |access-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308021612/https://www.allmusic.com/song/mt0011923342 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Box of Rain: Lyrics 1965–1993 |first=Robert |last=Hunter |publisher=Penguin Books |date=1993}}</ref> [[Mimi Farina]]'s composition "In the Quiet Morning", most famously covered by [[Joan Baez]] on her album ''[[Come from the Shadows]]'' (1972), was a tribute to Joplin.<ref>Performed by [[Joan Baez]] in her 1972 album ''[[Come from the Shadows]]''. Baez wrote the song "Blessed Are ... ," from her 1971 album of the same name, as a tribute to Joplin.</ref> Another song by Baez, "Children of the Eighties", mentioned Joplin. A [[Serge Gainsbourg]]-penned French language song by English singer [[Jane Birkin]], "Ex fan des sixties" (1978), references Joplin along with other disappeared "idols", such as [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Brian Jones]] and [[Marc Bolan]]. When Joplin was alive, [[Country Joe McDonald]] released a song called "Janis" on his band's album ''[[I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die]]'' (1967). In her memoir ''[[Just Kids]]'', [[Patti Smith]] mentions writing a song for Joplin and singing it to her one night at the [[Hotel Chelsea|Chelsea Hotel]], where both were living at the time. The song, called "Lullaby (I Was Working Real Hard)", was never recorded by Joplin but eventually appeared on Smith's Live At The Bottom Line, a performance from 1975.

The film ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' (1979) is loosely based on Joplin's life. Originally planned to be titled ''Pearl''—Joplin's nickname and the title of her last album—the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.<ref name=guardian>{{cite news |first=Priya |last=Elan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/07/janis-joplin-biopic |title=Is the Janis Joplin biopic finally going to be filmed? Don't hold your breath |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=August 7, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114050514/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/07/janis-joplin-biopic |archive-date=January 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie And Video Guide |first=Leonard |last=Maltin |author-link=Leonard Maltin |publisher=[[Plume (publishing)|Plume]] |year= 2002 |isbn=978-0-452-28329-9}}</ref> [[Bette Midler]] won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Female and earned nominations for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]], the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.