Rocky Road to Success: Janis Joplin – Singing for her soul
One would not expect an icon of the 1960s west coast rock and roll counter culture movement to hail from a small southeast Texas port city, but that is where Janis Joplin was born and raised. Her father was an oil engineer, and it seemed to be an idyllic southern life for a church-going couple […]
Tell them I will live my dream – David Bowie
As David Bowie releases his 25th album, Blackstar, on his 69th birthday, we look at the life of one of the most influential recording artists in the history of rock ‘n’ roll David Bowie’s life shows how a single aspiration, a dream, can pull an apparently ordinary individual to stellar success. In many ways, […]