In 1970 Janis Joplin was in Hollywood recording what became her “Pearl” album with its hit “Me and Bobby McGee.” This might have begun a new phase for the singer, but she keeled over in her motel room ...

More than 50 years later, the legend of the Monterey Pop Festival (June ’67) is alive and well. Considering the three-day event jumpstarted the careers of Jimi Hendrix (recommended by Paul McCartney), ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Some bands that played Monterey Pop 40 years ago will return in July to the site of the first great rock festival, but the original promoter and others say the spirit of the ...

Feb. 20—Ask a rock fan to name a major music festival of the 1960s and they'll likely name Woodstock. That's understandable of course, given how the Woodstock Music and Art Fair held in upstate New ...

For the September, 1993 issue of High Times, Cree McCree provided an exhaustive profile of Janis Joplin, who died on October 4, 1970. She was the brashest of the brash, the life of San Francisco’s ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. By Richard Sandomir Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ...