Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix two of the most promising musicians of their day died within 16 days of each other.
Both were legendary rock musicians who were only 27 when they died, and both were found dead in their respective hotel rooms.
John Bryne Cooke, a close friend and manager of Janis, discovered her body in her Landmark Hotel room. After Janis was late for a recording session, Bryne went looking for her. She was lying on the ground, hands full of smokes and cash when he found her.
A police officer reported seeing fresh hypodermic needle traces on Janis’ left arm, and an ambulance worker confirmed that Janis’ death did not appear suspicious.,
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Janis Joplin Early Life
Joplin had a troubled upbringing in a middle-class family in southeastern Texas, and she eventually dropped out of both Lamar State College of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin to pursue a career as a folk singer and blues performer.
After a lengthy stay in San Francisco. she returned to Texas. However, in 1966, at the urging of hippie promoter Chet Helms, she moved back to San Francisco to become the vocalist for Big Brother and the Holding Company.
The hard rock band, boosted by Joplin’s boisterous, bluesy vocals, issued an album on the independent Mainstream Records and astonished listeners at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
Where Joplin’s performance of “Ball and Chain” became a memorable highlight. While the once-ugly-duckling Joplin completed her metamorphosis into a strong-willed, sexually aggressive rock ic, Big Brother’s first album for major label Columbia, Cheap Thrills (1968), went to number one (the single “Piece of My Heart” reached number 12).
The coroner ruled that Janis died due to a heroin overdose
Although the needle marks on Janis’ arm led police to suspect drug use, they only found beer in the room.
The Los Angeles County coroner, Thomas Noguchi, speculated that Janis’s friends took the drugs out of her room. Photo of Janis Joplin by Baron Wolman/Getty Images, taken in her Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, residence in November 1967.
According to Noguchi, Janis died from a heroin overdose, which was likely aggravated by alcohol. John Cooke speculated that Janis had bought a stronger dose of heroin than she was accustomed to. John’s theory was bolstered by the deaths of other heroin users who bought from her dealer.
Janis’s death was judged to be unintentional.
Janis’s best friend Peggy Caserta didn’t believe the batch of heroin Janis used that night was more potent than what she was used to. According to her account in Vulture, Janis’s decision to experiment with psychoactive substances was prompted by a chance encounter with her dealer at the Landmark.
How did Janis Joplin die?
Joplin’s road manager and close friend, John Byrne Cooke, discovered her body on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel on the evening of Sunday, October 4, 1970. The air smelled like alcohol. The newspapers stated there were no additional drugs or paraphernalia present.
A companion of Joplin’s allegedly removed evidence of narcotics from the scene, only to return it after realizing that an autopsy would reveal that narcotics were in her system, as claimed in a book written in 1983 by Joseph Dimona and the Los Angeles County coroner, Thomas Noguchi. The book goes on to say that prior to Joplin’s death, Noguchi had investigated other drug-related deaths in Los Angeles where friends had removed evidence of narcotics from the scene in the belief that they were doing favors for the deceased; however, they later “thought things over” and replaced the evidence.
An autopsy performed by Dr. Noguchi revealed that Joplin died from a heroin overdose, which was likely exacerbated by alcohol consumption. Based on the overdoses of several of Joplin’s dealer’s other customers over the course of the same weekend, John Byrne Cooke concluded that the heroin Joplin and other L.A. heroin addicts had received that weekend was significantly stronger than what they had received on previous occasions.
Her untimely passing was officially declared an accident. Joplin had been expecting both her close friend Peggy Caserta and her fiancé Seth Morgan to spend the night with her on the Friday before her death (October 2).
As Caserta tells it, Joplin was disappointed when neither of her friends came to see her at the Landmark as they had promised.
In the day and a half following Joplin’s disappointment, Caserta did not call to offer an explanation for her absence. Admitting that she waited until after midnight on Saturday to contact the Landmark’s main number, Caserta learned that Joplin had told the front desk employee not to take her calls after midnight. It is unknown what was discussed during Morgan’s phone chat with Joplin in the final 24 hours of her life.
While on the phone, her coworkers at Sunset Sound Recorders saw that Morgan’s words had a profound effect on her. Peggy Caserta has stated emphatically that Joplin did not die of an accidental overdose, but rather from a head cut sustained when the “hourglass heel” of her slingback sandal became entangled in the shag carpet and she fell to the floor.
However, Caserta does admit that drugs and/or alcohol may have contributed to her untimely demise that evening. Joplin’s funeral was held at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, and her ashes were dispersed over the Pacific Ocean from a plane.
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