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Janis Joplin’s death was ruled a heroin overdose according to the coroner’s official report. Discovered in her Hollywood hotel room on October 4, 1970, the rock and roll legend was clutching her cigarettes in one hand and money in the other.
Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, three months after her death. It reached number one on the Billboard 200.
On October 4, 1970, singer Janis Joplin dies of an accidental heroin overdose and was discovered in her Los Angeles hotel room after failing to show for a scheduled recording session. She...
An autopsy by the Hollywood, Calif., coroner's office revealed yesterday that Janis Joplin died from an overdose of drugs. An examination of the body of the 27-year-old rock singer...
Unfortunately, the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll lifestyle caught up way too soon with Joplin, who died on October 4, 1970, of an accidental heroin overdose, joining a growing list of musicians and other entertainers who died at the young age of 27.
It's 50 years since Janis Joplin died of an overdose in Los Angeles aged only 27. Her sad death is the one main fact many people know about her - but for true fans she remains the...
With all this in the works, it was a shock that Joplin, 27, died in the early hours of Oct. 4, 1970, of a heroin overdose. Joplin enjoyed working with the Full Tilt Boogie Band after stints...
Her death was ruled accidental due to an overdose of heroin compounded by alcohol, according to an autopsy report by Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 (AP) —Janis Joplin, the blues singer, died from an accidental over dose of heroin, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said today. The finding was based on an extensive...
Miss Joplin succumbed less than three weeks after Jimi Hendrix, also 27, one of rock music's leading performers, died in a London apartment. A pathologist said he had suf focated from vomiting...