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How Janis Joplin Sparked a Musical Revolution

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When Janis Joplin left the stage with her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, the impact she had had on her audience was tangible. “You know you got it if it makes you feel good,” she’d screamed soulfully into the microphone – a lyric which would come to symbolise her tragically short career – while ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot was caught on camera mouthing “wow, that’s heavy” as Joplin finished her set. She was already fully-formed star;…

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