Joplin died before recording the vocal track.
The album was to include the song “Buried Alive in the Blues,” but it remained an instrumental. Joplin had been finishing up the final songs for Pearl. She was found dead the next day, wedged against a bedside table with a cigarette in her hand. They like their blues singers to die.” On the evening of October 3, after a long day in the recording studio, Joplin shot up her final fix of heroin, went down to the hotel lobby for change, bought some cigarettes, and returned to her room. Story: Joplin once said, “People like their blues singers miserable. Where she died: Room 105, Landmark Hotel, Los Angeles (There wasn’t.)Ĭelebrity: Singer-songwriter Janis Joplin What became of his effects is unknown, but the FBI reportedly feared there might be a working death ray among them. Alien Property Custodian office-the only agency authorized to seize “enemy assets” without a court order-hauled away truckloads of paper, furniture, and artifacts, and sealed them away. But was he mad? When Tesla died in the hotel suite he’d occupied for 10 years, the U.S. His ideas were so far-fetched that the first Superman cartoon, in 1941, featured a mad scientist, based on Tesla, terrorizing New York City with his death ray. In 1934 Tesla, who became increasingly eccentric late in life, claimed to have perfected a particle-beam ray that could bring down enemy planes from 250 miles away or drop a million men dead in their tracks. Story: This pioneering inventor contributed as much to the development of electricity as Thomas Edison did. Where he died: Room 3327, Hotel New Yorker, New York City At age 46, as he lay dying of cerebral meningitis in his Paris hotel room, he raised a glass of champagne and gave his final toast: “I’m dying,” he said, “as I have lived, beyond my means.” It was true: Wilde left behind a very large-and unpaid-hotel bill.Ĭelebrity: Scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla The years in prison destroyed his health and reputation, and forced him into bankruptcy, but he never lost his fabled wit. Story: At the height of his fame, Wilde was arrested for what he called “Uranian love.” Victorian England had a less literary view of homosexuality: Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years of hard labor. Where he died: Room 16, Hôtel d’Alsace, Paris These famous folks didn’t.Ĭelebrity: Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde We’ve all checked into hotel rooms that left us cold: bad room service, grungy sinks, bedspreads that haven’t been washed-since the ’80s.
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