The second posthumous #1 single on Billboard’s Hot 100 came three years after the first. In 1971, Janis Joplin’s cover of Kris Kristofferson’s ‘Me and Bobby BcGee’ reached the top spot a few months after her drug overdose death at 27.

Joplin recorded the song for her second album, Pearl. Kristofferson was out of the country at the time and didn’t know about the cover. He heard the track for the first time the day Joplin was found dead in her hotel room.

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