She Called City Hall About a Marriage License — One Month Later She Was Dead

Janis Joplin: The Untold Legacy explores the real moments behind one of rock history's most powerful voices. In September 1970, Janis Joplin called City Hall asking about a marriage license. She was going to marry Seth Morgan. Morgan was a UC Berkeley dropout, 21 years old, the son of a literary family that counted e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas among their dinner guests. He met Janis while delivering cocaine to her Marin County home in July 1970. They had quiet nights at home. They agreed to get married and have children. She wanted the picket fence she had been mythologizing since Port Arthur. On October 3rd, the night before she died, she learned Seth had been seen with other women. That night, both Seth and Peggy Caserta failed to show up. She was alone. What Seth Morgan became in the twenty years that followed is one of the stranger parallel stories in rock history: armed robber, convicted felon, heroin addict, strip club barker — and finally a novelist whose debut Homeboy received glowing reviews. Inside the novel: a character based on Janis Joplin, described as a flamboyantly dressed prostitute. He died in a motorcycle accident in New Orleans on October 17, 1990. Twenty years after Janis. She became immortal. He became a ghost. Stories on this channel are presented in a narrative documentary format based on documented historical accounts including Holly George-Warren's Janis, Laura Joplin's Love Janis, and Esquire's Seth Morgan's Last Ride (1991). All content is intended for entertainment only. #janisjoplin #sethmorgan #pearl #untoldlegacy #rockhistory