![]() ![]() The guitarist does time in Santana before founding the groups Journey and Bad English. ![]() Their new stickman is Kenney Jones, formerly of the Faces.ġ980 Michael Jackson wins his first Grammy: Best R&B Performance for " Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough." Other winners include Donna Summer (Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for " Hot Stuff"), Earth, Wind & Fire (Best R&B Group Vocal Performance for " After the Love Has Gone"), and The Doobie Brothers (Record of the Year and Song of the Year for " What A Fool Believes").ġ954 Neal Schon is born on an Air Force base in Oklahoma. ![]() In 1995, this record is broken by " One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men.ġ981 The Who release " You Better You Bet," their first single since the death of their drummer, Keith Moon, in 1978. Moreġ993 Whitney Houston's single " I Will Always Love You" reaches its 14th week at #1, a new record. Spock's Music From Outer Space and Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy both charted in the US (#83 and #97, respectively), and his voice was sampled in the Information Society hit " What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)."Ģ005 Jamie Foxx wins a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the movie Ray. The actor, best known for playing Spock on Star Trek, also made a musical impact: His albums Mr. ‘Trust Me’ 10.2015 Leonard Nimoy dies at age 83. Janis Joplin – ‘Pearl’ Released: February 1971 Producer: Paul A. Fast forward to 2009 and work like ‘Pearl’ not only bridges the gap between black and white, but is a timely reminder of why Joplin has grown into such an iconic figure for generations of musicians and music lovers to come. She wasn’t afraid to let it out, on stage or on record, and it was this that earned her great respect in both white and black musical circles – a mean feat in those racially tense times. Whether it was love or politics, Joplin did it with her heart and her soul. Asking the Lord to buy her a Mercedes-Benz, colour TV and night on the town, she takes a stab at the materialism that surrounded the strange juxtaposition of fame and hippy ideals that was her every day life. Never straying far from her duties as ’60s wild child, the social commentary returns in the self-penned a cappella track ‘Mercedes Benz’. And with a history of unsteady boyfriends and even dalliances with women, you know there is very real sincerity behind her words. To this day, it is linked inexplicably with Joplin’s legend.įrom ‘Cry Baby’, where Joplin defiantly states, “All you ever gotta do is be a good man, one time, to one woman, and that will be the end of the road” to ‘A Woman Left Lonely’, Joplin rides the rollercoaster of heartache and makes sure you’re in the passenger seat. It became her first Number One single when it topped the Billboard charts in March 1971 and was only the second posthumous Number One in rock history after Otis Redding’s ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’. It is believed Kristofferson didn’t even know Joplin covered the track until after her death but it did not take long for the rest of the world to take notice. Fortuitously she had laid down vocals to the brilliant ‘Me And Bobby McGee’, a cover of a track penned by Kris Kristofferson, whom Joplin was romantically involved with for a short time. Ironically, the album created around a fictitious being may well be her most personal and honest.Īlthough recording was not entirely completed before Joplin’s death in October 1970 (‘Buried Alive In The Blues’ appears sans vocals as a result), there was still enough material to create an LP. The cover itself featured Joplin as Pearl in full hippie get-up, sporting a pink, feathered headdress and reclining on a decadent lounge chair with a drink in hand. The role ‘Pearl’ was to play in Joplin’s life was existential – Pearl was in fact Joplin’s alter ego, a self-medication she used to deal with the stresses and strains of life as Janis Joplin. Those she could handle, and felt most at peace with, were themselves junkies and she watched as several fell victims to their addictions. Most likely the hardest role to play in Joplin’s career was that of a friend, as she found many either too overbearing or overruling. These factors were to play important roles in Joplin’s return to the needle and also to the main stage. ![]() ‘Pearl’ was to arrive at a curious crossroad in Joplin’s career on one hand she was still dealing with mixed reactions to her departure from Big Brother, which some felt an arrogant move and others a perfectly timed decision, and on the other she had a gold-selling album with the Kozmic Blues Band, ‘I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!’ that was still no match to Joplin’s predecessor with Big Brother, ‘Cheap Thrills’ (the best-selling album of 1968 in the US). ![]()
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