September 7, 1945. Charlottenber Strasa, Berlin. The war in Europe had been over for four months. American, British, French, and Soviet commanders stood together on a reviewing platform to watch...
1983 Telford, England. A factory floor owned by GKN Sanki, an engineering company that had been building things out of steel for the British military since the Boore War. A...
January 1991, the Saudi desert. A British convoy halts beside an empty patch of sand. A single eight-wheeled truck reverses into position. No crane arrives, no forklift, no second vehicle....
1991, the streets of Vukovar, eastern Croatia. A wheeled armored vehicle rolls through a ruined intersection. Four wheels, an open-topped turret, three cannon barrels pointing skyward at 83 degrees. It...
April 1969, London. Janis Joplin had just landed in England, her first major European tour, the Cosmic Blues Band. The country that had embraced American blues musicians when America itself...
In March 1971, two songs were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin and Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner....
There is a song on Pearl that has no vocals. Every other track on the album, the last album Janice Joplain recorded, the one released after her death, has her...
August 12th, 1970, Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The promoters had expected 10,000 people. 40,000 showed up. Harvard Stadium, the oldest concrete stadium in America, built in 1903, home of the...
In the summer of 1970, Janis Joplin went home. Not San Francisco, that was her chosen home. The city that had taken her in and given her a stage and...
July 8th, 1969. Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts. The Berkshire Hills. Summer. The home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. One of the most prestigious classical music venues in America. The...