Love Me Please

A lively, fascinating story of one of the greatest stars of Rock, who was way ahead of her time.

Love Me Please is a biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin, highlighting her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. It unfolds one of the most fabulous musical adventures in America during the second half of the twentieth century, yet it lasted only five years.

How did a very young, messed-up woman, a drug addict filled with doubt, become a planetary icon of rock music in just a few years? Thanks to a worldwide movement of emancipation that would long consecrate the ideals and modes of alternative lifestyles—from counterculture to the flower power generation—Janis, the ugly duckling, gave free rein to her impulses.

Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicentre of cultural innovation. There, she abandoned herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the taboos of the time: bisexuality, alcohol, and drugs. She did so not only with delight but also with a taste for excess that came naturally from her spontaneous character.