Gone With the Wind: The 10 Most Tragic Deaths in Rock History

8. Janis Joplin

One of the deaths that saddened the music community the most was that of Janis Joplin. Unique and iconic like none other, she was the voice of an entire generation and had one of the most fanatic followings in music history. Unfortunately, like many other legends of her decade, Joplin developed a heroin addiction and died of an overdose on October 4^th of 1970. She was found on the floor of her hotel room with a cigarette in hand, on the day she was scheduled to record the last song for her album “Pearl”. As life’s irony would have it, the song’s title was “Buried Alive in the Blues”.