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...
1968, Kontum Province, Vietnam. An Australian SAS scout arrived at a MACV-SOG forward operating base on a temporary loan, did something in the jungle that no American on that team...
The safe house was in a narrow street in the Kerata district. And at 4 in the morning, it held the particular stillness of a place where men have just...
Three rounds fired from beneath the surface of the water struck a target standing on a pier at a distance of 14 m. The shooter’s head never broke the surface....
The International Hotel, Las Vegas, August 23rd, 1970. 2,200 people packed into the showroom expecting another Electric Elvis performance. But sitting front row, arms crossed, was Liberace’s former piano teacher,...
He stood under the lights on a warm June night in 1977, minutes from ending what would become his final concert. But instead of thanking the crowd, Elvis Presley looked...