Remembering 20 iconic musicians and singers who left the world too soon, whose tragic deaths shocked the music industry.

Peach Street Revival, 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Belly Up Aspen Peach Street Revival is a fierce, female-dominated rock band from ...

To this day, Janis Joplin is one of the crucial figures in the ’60s flower-power movement. With hit songs such as “Me and ...

“Bobby McGee, I never wrote that for a girl to sing,” he revealed. “But Janis [Joplin], I can’t do it without thinking of her. It was all happening so fast back then. I was just ...

Janis Joplin was another close friend, and her howling rendition of Kristofferson's “Me and Bobby McGee” would become a hit soon after her death in 1970. It was probably the best known version ...

The star, who died on Sept. 28, 2024 at the age of 88, first began his music career in the 1970s and collaborated with iconic stars like Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson throughout his ...

I could have ended up dead.” Kristofferson drank heavily during the 1960s and ’70s around the time that he briefly dated Janis Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970. “I don’t know ...

His songs, covered by legends like Janis Joplin and Johnny Cash, are etched in the heart of American music history. Yet, it was his role opposite Barbra Streisand in "A Star is Born" that won him a ...

Over a career spanning six decades, the prolific artist collaborated with fellow country outlaws including Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, wrote hits for Janis Joplin and Gladys knight, and starred ...

Kristofferson with his second wife Rita Coolidge in 1972 Credit: Gijsbert Hanekroot The song later became a hit for Janis Joplin, who had grown up in Port Arthur, several hundred miles along the ...

He had dated doomed blues star Janis Joplin, and her death from drugs and alcohol in October 1970 aged just 27 hit him badly. “I don't know what you call a love affair, but we were real close ...