Dick Cavett asked Janis Joplin about the kind of life her parents had wanted for her. Not fame, not the…
The modern cultural landscape is rarely captivated by anything as fiercely as it has been by the phenomenon of the…
April 29, 1,945. A soldier raises his rifle, pulls the trigger, an SS guard drops to the ground, then another…
In 1968, Leonard Cohen stepped into an elevator at the Chelsea Hotel in New York and found Janis Joplin standing…
In the sprawling, hyper-documented landscape of modern celebrity and professional sport, it is remarkably rare to witness a moment of…
She sabotaged their helicopter. She crashed their concert. She danced on their stage. Mick Jagger never saw her coming. Now,…
He wore a good coat. That’s the first thing. Not a work coat, not the gray wool thing a German…
Four days after Martin Luther King was shot, the greatest musicians of a generation gathered at a small club in…
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February 1945, a black volcanic beach in the middle of the Pacific, a Marine sergeant from New Jersey lay dead…