Janis Joplin: heroin addict, bisexual, fringe and cursed

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Janis Joplin was at the height of her vocal and vital power in early 1968. Her fame had spilled over in July last year, at the Monterey Pop festival, the great

orgy

, and from then on she had no choice but to accelerate her hedonistic rhythm: there was not a single pleasure that was not given, and what in 1977 became a mantra -

as the song by Ian Dury said - she had already been practicing it for some time without measure like the great woman liberated from her days.

She was a beast: in bed, burning the hypodermic needle and singing the blues.

She knew she would die young and she didn't care.

Next October 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the star's death.

In a way, that was his way of taking revenge for the humiliations he had received during his adolescence.

She never felt accepted, or wanted, or desired, and when she fled west to live as a

she unleashed and began to build her legend, even at the cost of paying a heavy price.

He never cared: in February 1968, when he visited New York for the first time with his band,

, he checked into the legendary Chelsea Hotel - a place frequented by camels, musicians and groupies, and which by then was beginning to feed his fame of a cursed den-, and wrote a phrase on the headboard of his bed with lipstick:

.

The hotel manager, it is said, caught his attention:

Janis responded with a laconic "it's the truth."

The world's biggest sex object was known because there wasn't a day that she didn't sleep with someone, and for sex she needed to get high: alcohol, tobacco, her regular

jabs

and heroin, or all at once.

- the best a white blues singer ever had - because she had the same roughness as that of her goddess, Bessie Smith.

No one could deny that she was not the rock queen of the 60s.

He radiated, of course, the charisma of the damned.

He was irregular in his concerts, sometimes he failed because his voice was annoyed by slugs of whiskey and bourbon - months

, just as toxic for his bulbous liver - but when his throat Janis performed well, space and time were ripped apart.

She mixed wildlife and primitive art, and from that combination the myth was born.

The singer used to dress in a very particular and disheveled way

Many biographers have attempted to explain Janis' astonishing sexual and narcotic voracity beginning in her tormented adolescence.

Born in 1943 in Port Arthur, an unattractive town in a deeply Christian area of ​​Texas, she

Numerous testimonies have explained that she grew up self-conscious about her physique - she felt that she had small breasts, and

- and she never felt comfortable among ordinary people.

The girls in her class aspired to be cheerleaders while she smoked joints with the bad guys because she had never been invited to the prom.

His family, who did not understand his traumas or understand his passion for the blues, did not help him either.

Avid for sex and freedom - and sick of contempt;

sometimes girls threw coins at her feet, which was

Janis dropped out of college, became a spiritual nomad, and hitchhiked west.

He arrived in San Francisco in the early 1960s, when the psychedelic revolution was brewing and the old

- free spirits and druggies fascinated by literature and travel, as portrayed by Jack Kerouac in

- became hippies.

From the first moment, he lived through the frenzied transformation of the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets into an

entertainment transmission center

first - books, magazines, concerts - and later in the epicenter of the countercultural rock shake, where they walked the young rebels who avoided going to Vietnam, looking for sex, drugs and a bed to sleep on.

Janis Joplin's first escape was a failure - she had to leave San Francisco for a time and return to Port Arthur, without her family receiving her as a prodigal daughter or her neighbors seeing her transformation into

good eyes.

arm bracelets

and gaudy loose-fitting clothes;

To this day, they have not even dedicated a street to it in their town - but it did take root in California on the second attempt.

There he finally materialized his three wishes: to have a band to sing - he found it in

some

who agreed with his anarchic impetus - to have

and also a renewable court of lovers who They will satisfy your sexual appetite.

Janis was, in practice, bisexual, and it has been impossible to build a reliable census of her partners.

He didn't spare an opportunity: boys he met in hotels, musicians he met at festivals - that's how, during the famous Monterey Pop, he slept with Jimi Hendrix and, shortly after,

while the wife of the leader of

waited patiently in the next room for them to finish, enduring the thunderous screams of Joplin-, or directly slept with groupmates,

, camels or even a backpacker with whom coincided at the Rio de Janeiro carnival in 1970.

In any case, her stable partners were girls, which is why her biographers maintain that, in truth, Janis was always gay: her longest relationship, although intermittent, was with two women who were also a couple, Kim Chappell - previously he had been a lover of singer-songwriter Joan Baez- and Peggy Caserta.

With its comings and goings, this lesbian triangle remained until the date of Janis Joplin's death;

soon after, Peggy - still alive, at 79 years old - published all the details in a scandalous sexual biography,

(1973).

Peggy, as well as numerous testimonies, confirmed that Joplin never wanted to order her life.

She was afloat in chaos: before she was 27 she had suffered up to

- so told her doctor, Dr. Edmund Rothschild - she had a voluntary abortion in Mexico after Christmas '67, she preferred to take amphetamine to snort it And by the time he became a junkie,

.

She wanted to give up drugs and alcohol after a hint of cirrhosis and several juju, but failed: the methadone did not work for her and she returned to the horse at the end of the summer of 70;

his death, on October 4 of that year in a hotel in Los Angeles - he was recording his posthumous album,

- was due to a sudden overdose after buying a very pure dose.

Her autopsy also showed that her liver was about to burst.

Janis was always a child misunderstood by her family.

De Janis has remained one of the wildest legend of the 20th century.

His musical career was trampled, but with memorable glimpses in songs like

or

, which sometimes disguise that his life was a hyperbolic disaster, an outdated chaos in which he wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars into drugs and which led him to make absurd decisions such as signing

a

drug

dealer and pimp whom he had infatuated with in 1970 because he fucked relentlessly and had good merchandise.

But since he lost in life, he won in history.

It is said that at some point, before the end, he dreamed of an orderly routine: having children, retiring to the country, giving up drugs.

But he never got over his youthful trauma, and he

which kept him afloat as they consumed him.

She carried her self-destructive impulse to the end, perhaps because she always knew that normalcy would end her too.

In fact, she aspired to take revenge on the world with a scandalous cut of sleeves that destroyed her body, but transformed her soul into legend.

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