Roger Lee Durham Born: February 14, 1946, in Kansas City, Missouri Died: July 27, 1973 Band: Bloodstone, The Sinceres In 1962, a group of high school friends in Kansas City, Missouri, founded a doo-wop quintet named The Sinceres. The members eventual
Jim Morrison (“The Lizard King”) Born: December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida Died: July 3, 1971, in Paris, France Band: The Doors Crawling King Snake – The Door… A self-styled “erotic politician,” James Douglas M
Jesse Belvin Born: December 15, 1932, in San Antonio, Texas Died: February 6, 1960, near Hope, Arkansas Bands: The Shields, and solo. Co-writer of The Penguins’ “Earth Angel” Jesse Belvin is hardly mentioned in the annals of rock, but his contributio
Janis Joplin (“Pearl”) Born: January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas Died: October 4, 1970, in a Los Angeles hotel room Bands: Big Brother and The Holding Company, The Kozmic Blues Band, The Full Tilt Boogie Band Cry Baby – Janis Jo