The U.S. Postal
Service has added legendary singer Janis Joplin to its Music Icons Forever Stamp
series during a First-Day-Of-Issue ceremony at the Outside Lands Music Festival
at Golden Gate Park.
The Janis Joplin
Forever Stamp is the fifth in the Postal Service’s Music Icons series. Through
the power of stamps, Joplin joins a list of celebrated artists so honored:
Lydia Mendoza, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix.
The original black
and white photograph is rendered in shades of blue, with Joplin’s trademark
round sunglasses tinted a dark shade of pink. The words “Janis Joplin,” along
with the “Forever” denomination and “USA” appear in psychedelic-style script
reminiscent of the 1960s, in shades of gold, orange, and pink. Small blue stars
pop out from the stamp’s dark blue background.
The stamp pane
evokes the appearance of a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve. One side of the pane
includes the stamps and the image of a sliver of a record visible at the top. A
photograph taken by noted photographer, creative director and designer
Bruce Steinberg
of Queens, NY, in May 1968 at the First
International San Jose Pop Festival, and the logo for the Music Icons series
appear on the reverse side, along with the words “Janis Joplin Blues, Rock,
Country, Soul, Folk.”
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