Janis Joplin would have been 80 today ...

Wyllow I haven’t seen anyone mention Cindy Sherman in, well, forever!
I was made aware of her when I studied feminism and postmodernism.
Anyway, I just googled her, and blow me down, it was her birthday yesterday too!
She was 69 on the 19th January

"She's up there alongside Kate Millet and Cindy Sherman."
I'm sorry but who and who? I shall Goggle them now but up to this moment I have never heard of either lady and I always considered myself fairly well educated.

I wasn’t keen on her myself, obv in a minority.

notgran

I have no memory of her being popular when I was young. After she died she was the poster child for drug abuse. I think she may have been popular as a pop singer in the USA but here? I don't think so. Waste of a life poor thing (whoever she was)

She was definitely popular and known here I remember her being on the Tom Jones show! Maybe you're too young to know her - I was 15 when she died in 1970.

Riverwalk I was minus 2 when she died, and I have been aware of Janis since my early teens.
And then I listened to her music a lot in the mid 90s, as a friend was a big fan.
The song Mercedes Benz was used in an ad for, yes, Mercedes Benz, about 20 years ago

I remember DS1 being surprised when Mercedes Benz came on the radio = he only knew it from the TV advert and had no idea it was a real song!

She wasn't my cup of tea but each to their own.