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Nobody sang the blues hotter, lived the 60's wilder, or rocked harder than Janis Joplin. THis is her story. Out of the Texas, Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. THe author bases this biography on interviews with scores of personalities, both famous and unknown to reveal facts about Janis Joplin's life and death that have languished in shadow for many years. Here is the tragic, the magic, and, mos...

Ellis Amburn chronicles Roy Orbison's life and career, from the dusty oil patches and honky tonks of west Texas to the heights of international stardom - only to have it all cut short by a fatal heart attack in 1988. He was only 52 when he died. The author draws extensively on his interviews with Roy's family, the family of his first wife, old friends, colleagues and bandmates. This is the story of one of rock's most renowned figures. This det...

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its mosticonic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also knew many of the key figures in her life and career, a veritable pantheon of Hollywood royalty from the 30s, 40s, and 50s: Jimmy Stewart, George Cukor, and David ...

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The life and career of Hollywood legend Olivia De Havilland, who appeared in such iconic films as "Gone With The Wind", "Sweet Charlotte" and "The Snake Pit", turns a revealing lens on the golden age of Hollywood, with Clark Gable, John Huston and many others appearing anecdotally.

To those who knew and loved her, she was Pearl. To an enthralled generation of youth, she was Janis Joplin, the first rock superstar of the '60s--locked into a doomed search for satisfaction. Pearl gives readers the real Janis, including never-before-known facts about her death. 16 pages of rare photos.