Janis Joplin, 1969 - The greatest female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin epitomized the turbulence of her era.  An original hippie, she fully embraced the lifestyle.  Born in Texas and raised in Port Arthur, she ran away from home at 17 and began her career singing folk music in coffee houses and clubs in small Texas towns.  For a time she wandered from Venice Beach in LA to Greenwich Village in New York City, eventually landing in San Francisco in 1966.   That same year, she was offered a gig to sing with Big Brother and the Holding Company and soon became the band’s lead singer.  It didn’t take long for her to become associated with the counter-culture of the ‘60’s and to become its poster child.  Known for her gravel-voiced shrieks and her distinctive stage presence, Janis Joplin had an innate ability to emit sexuality and passion when she performed.  Her free spirit and aggressiveness redefined the role of women in rock and roll with her assertive, sexually forthright persona and raunchy, electrifying on-stage presence.  Scavullo spoke of their photo shoot with affection.  “I had a fabulous afternoon with Janis Joplin.  She was so different from what I thought she would be.  When she walked in the studio, I didn’t know her and she didn’t know me.  I started photographing and Janis began dancing and singing.  I fell in love with her instantly.  It was a magical, incredible day.  I think one of the things she wanted was to be beautiful and she knew she just wasn’t.”  Janis Joplin died the year after this photo was taken, tragically overdosing on heroin in a Hollywood hotel.  "Me and Bobby McGee,” a single from her last album (“Pearl”), became a posthumous number one single in 1971, and thus the song with which she is most frequently identified.  She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.