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On October 4,1970: Janis Joplin dies at the age of
27
 On October 4, 1970, four years and four
months after she bolted from Austin, Janis Joplin overdosed in
her room at the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles, having scored a
particularly pure batch of heroin. Her career had been virtually
meteoric, but her ascent as the first goddess of rock was doused
by her sad, lonely death, which followed that of Jimi Hendrix,
who'd died two weeks earlier. Jim Morrison would die within a
year. Janis was cremated and her ashes were scattered along the
Marin County coastline of California.
The album she was recording
at the time, Pearl, was released after her death. Although Janis
Joplin's career lasted only a few years, she has been hailed as
the greatest white female blues singer who ever lived.
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