ContactMusic — Grammy award-winning songwriter Jerry Ragovoy has passed away at the age of 80. He died of complications from a stroke on Wednesday (13Jul11), according to the New York Times. Ragovoy composed a number of hit songs including Janis Joplin's Piece of M... more info

Topix — Jerry Ragavoy wrote many of the hit songs that made Janis Joplin famous. Jerry RagavoyA who wrote Janis Joplin 's signature hit "Piece of My Heart" as well as "Cry Baby" and "Time Is On My Side," died Wednesday from complications of a stroke. more info

Guardian Music — (Fiction)Details of English newcomer Alice Gold's past are sparse; she seems to have simply materialised, fully-formed, at age 28, with an album of pop-rock she says was modelled on Janis Joplin. While Joplin's hard-living raunchiness surfaces in a... more info

Guardian Music — The Fleetwood Mac veteran and solo star picks the music that has inspired her through her 40-year careerFrom Florence Welch to Courtney Love, Sheryl Crow to Taylor Swift, there are plenty of artists who owe a debt to Stevie Nicks (63). She began as h... more info

Guardian Music — 4 October 1970: Number 22 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicTime magazine called Janis Joplin "probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement", thanks to her recordings both solo and with Big Bro... more info

Guardian Music — Hollywood actor teams up with Bristol band to cover George Gershwin's Summertime for Mexican movie soundtrackMassive Attack have collaborated with actor Scarlett Johansson on the soundtrack to a forthcoming Mexican thriller. Dias de Gracia (Days of G... more info

Guardian Music — Co-founder Kiran Bellubbi talks mashing up recorded music and interactive books.There was relatively little jazz being played at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969, but there's a thoroughly modern link between the two in 2011 in the form of US de... more info

ContactMusic — Pop superstar Cyndi Lauper returned to her bluesy roots on Thursday night (05May11) when she played a set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The True Colors hitmaker fronted a Janis Joplin covers band before she hit the big time in the 1... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Let's leave the pop and rock scene for while and turn to some lazy and relaxing Easter Week-end music. Did you ever wonder what a white Ann Peebles might have sounded like? Well, just hit the play button and you'll know. This is one amazing and a... more info

Guardian Music — There's the young girlfriend, the Hoxton flat, the new veneers, the radio show... At 63, Ronnie Wood is starting againIf there's one thing more surprising than Rolling Stone Keith Richards surviving into his 60s, it's that his bandmate Ronnie Wood ha... more info