FILE – In this July 29, 1968 file photo, singer Janis Joplin performs at the Newport Folk Festival with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the brief, electrifying career of Janis Joplin with a week of events building up to a tribute concert. The hall in Cleveland calls the bluesy singer one of rock’s most passionate and influential artists. Joplin, who rose to fame during San Francisco’s 1967 «Summer of Love,» was 27 when she died of a drug overdose in 1970. (AP Photo, File)
