Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin: Cheap Thrills

"Joplin died of a heroin overdose at 27, alone in a Los Angeles motel room in the early morning hours of Oct. 4, 1970. ... 'We don’t celebrate her death,' said Laura Joplin, the singer’s sister, who controls the Joplin estate with her brother, Michael Joplin. 'We celebrate her life.' Some Joplin fans wonder whether there has been enough celebrating at all. ... But now the Joplins have recruited, for the first time, a professional estate manager, Jeffrey Jampol, to develop business opportunities and guide the career of a singer dead since Nixon’s first term. ... Mr. Jampol’s presence might provide a new avenue of communication between the singer’s family and her old band mates. Profits from the two albums Joplin made with Big Brother, notably 'Cheap Thrills' and its hit single 'Piece of My Heart,' are split among the three surviving band members ... and the estates of Joplin and the guitarist James Gurley, who died last year" (Greg Evans, "A Piece of Her Heart on a 40th Anniversary," New York Times, 10/1/10).

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