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There are photos from the 1960s that are so eye catching, so lovely, that you want to look over and study them again and again. Sometimes they show you a new way to look at the world, and some of them just have that special joie de vivre that it’s impossible to explain.

The Queen of Rock and Roll would have been 70 today. Here are a few things you may not have known about the soul songstress.

That's not VW ...it's her famous psychedelic Porsche and I haven't a clue who snapped the photo. =}

Janis Joplin was an iconoclast. When appearing on 'The Dick Cavett Show' in 1969 she explained lucidly why she hated performing to European audiences.

Jerry Garcia and Janice Joplin attending a funeral in San Francisco

American singer Janis Joplin performing with the Kozmic Blues Band at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 21st April 1969.

The Queen of Rock and Roll would have been 70 today. Here are a few things you may not have known about the soul songstress.

Janis Joplin and her psychedelic 1965 Porsche Type 356C

Janis Joplin was bullied by future Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson during their high school days in the late 1950s in Port Arthur, Texas, a new book obtained by DailyMail.com reveals.