Janis Joplin at the Monterey Pop Festival
1967 · Event
Fronting Big Brother and the Holding Company, the unknown Texan tears through 'Ball and Chain' and leaves the festival crowd — and the record industry — stunned.
On these timelines: US Popular Music, Master, USA
More from US Popular Music
- Can I Kick It? (A Tribe Called Quest) (1990)
- Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye) (1982)
- The Weight (The Band) (1968)
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges) (1969)
- Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) (1968)
- He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones) (1980)
- Where Is My Mind? (Pixies) (1988)
- Sex Machine (James Brown) (1970)
Around 1967
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)