num_pages: 340
description: Out of the Texas-Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. She was Janis Joplin--the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots movement that overtook the world, a prisoner of an ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame.
language: English
title: Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
titlecomplete: Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
characters: Janis Joplin
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Music, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 789
publisher: Grand Central Publishing