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Peggy Caserta, a former lover of Janis Joplin, has died. She was 84.. Nancy Cleary, her friend and the publisher at Wyatt-MacKenzie, which released her 2018 memoir I Ran Into Some Trouble ...
Peggy Louise Caserta (September 12, 1940 – November 21, 2024) was an American businesswoman and memoirist. She owned Mnasidika, a boutique in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district that became a hub for the counterculture of the 1960s, and published two memoirs, including one detailing her relationship with singer Janis Joplin.
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, [1] as well as her "electric" stage presence.
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1970s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Psychologists explain why we love them. ... Janis Joplin died a few weeks later, and Jim Morrison, the legendary front man of the Doors, was found dead in his bathtub in 1971.
Janis Joplin thrilled rock fans with her soulful music. As she burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, she was known for songs that were a unique mix of rock, folk, and blues. After her death in ...
Seth David Morgan (April 4, 1949 – October 17, 1990) was an American novelist, who published one book, Homeboy (1990), [1] and was working on a second novel when he died. [2] He was Janis Joplin 's fiancé at the time of her death in October 1970.
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history.