Janis Joplin were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean. Joplin's death in October 1970 at age 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world, especially when coupled with the death just 16 days earlier of another rock icon, Jimi Hendrix, also at age 27. (This would later cause some people to attribute significance to the death of musicians at the age of 27, as celebrated in the notional '27 Club'.) Music historian Tom Moon wrote that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice", music columnist Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" wrote that Joplin as an artist was "overpowering
Angel (Jimi Hendrix song) Angel (Jimi Hendrix song) "Angel" is a song by American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 1971 posthumous studio album "The Cry of Love". Written and self-produced by Hendrix, the song was recorded for the guitarist's unreleased fourth studio album just months before he died in September 1970, and was later released as the lead single from his first posthumous studio album in the United Kingdom. Despite its late entry into the musician's catalog, the song "Angel" dates back to relatively early in Jimi Hendrix's career, when the music was first recorded under the name "Little Wing" in