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Janis Joplin Main Page Detailed Biography&Facts Discography, Albums Filmography, Movies Quotes Trivia, Highligts Awards, Nominations, Honors Janis Joplin Images, Pictures, Photos: Janis Joplin Picture Gallery Next: Led Zeppelin Previous: Michael Jackson	January 19, 1943 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas. June 11, 1965 Janis Joplin debuts with Big Brother and the Holding Company at San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom, where they become the house band. JANUARY 21-23, 1966 The Trips Festival, a multimedia event featuring performances by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company, is held at Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco. February 1, 1966 Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Jefferson Airplane headline the First Annual Tribal Stomp at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. February 19, 1966 Janis Joplin makes her debut as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. June 17, 1967 Big Brother and the Holding Company perform a show-stopping set on the second day of the Monterey International Pop Festival. Vocalist Janis Joplin becomes an overnight sensation. August 12, 1967 The self-titled debut album by Big Brother and the Holding Company is released on Mainstream Records. It reaches #60. 1968 By 1968, the hippie movement was spreading across the U.S. and Europe, even though the political landscape hardly reflected the ethos of peace and love. Rock and roll was becoming a business, and bands continued to proliferate. Quicksilver and the Steve Miller Band both issued their debut albums, and the Grateful Dead released 'Anthem of the Sun,' a record that attempted to sonically re-create an LSD trip. The Jefferson Airplane hit the Top Ten with 'Crown of Creation,' the Big Brother and the Holding Company went all the way to Number One with 'Cheap Thrills.' August 12, 1968 'Cheap Thrills,' by Big Brother and the Holding Company, is released on Columbia Records. It tops the chart for seven weeks. September 29, 1968 "Piece of My Heart," the lone Top Forty hit by Big Brother and the Holding Company, enters the charts. It reaches #12. December 7, 1968 Janis Joplin performs for the last time as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Two weeks later, she debuts her new group, the Kozmic Blues Band. AUGUST 15-17, 1969 The year 1969 was the year of the rock festival. The largest was the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held on the weekend of August 15-17 in the tiny town of Bethel, in upstate New York. An estimated crowd of 450,000 attended the event, which featured everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Joe Cocker, to Arlo Guthrie, the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Ravi Shankar and Country Joe McDonald. If Woodstock marked the apex of the hippie movement in America, the Rolling Stones' free concert in Hyde Park did the same for England. Held on July 5, the show drew nearly 300,000 people, the largest gathering in England since V-E Day. September 18, 1969 Janis Joplin’s first solo album, 'I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again (Mama),' is released. June 12, 1970 Janis Joplin debuts a new band, Full-Tilt Boogie, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. August 8, 1970 Janis Joplin provides a headstone for the grave of Bessie Smith, her primary influence, who is buried in Philadelphia’s Mount Lawn cemetery. October 4, 1970 Janis Joplin is found dead in her room at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood, California. The official cause is accidental heroin overdose. February 27, 1971 'Pearl,' the album that Janis Joplin was making at the time of her death, hits #1 on the album charts, where it will stay for nine weeks. March 14, 1971 "Me and Bobby McGee," Janis Joplin's only Top Forty hit, reaches #1. It tops Billboard's pop singles chart for two weeks. July 14, 1973 'Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits' enters the album charts. It will peak at #22 and sell more than 2 million copies. October 10, 1979 'The Rose,' a hit film loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, premieres in Los Angeles. Bette Midler stars in the lead role. JANUARU 12, 1995 Janis Joplin is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the tenth annual induction dinner. Melissa Etheridge is her presenter. April 22, 2001 'Love, Janis,' a musical play based on actual letters sent to family members by Janis Joplin, opens off-Broadway at New York's Village Theater.