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Big Brother and the Holding Company
Big Brother and the Holding Company
is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same
psychedelic
music scene
that produced the
Grateful Dead
,
Quicksilver Messenger Service
, and
Jefferson Airplane
. They are best known as the band that featured
Janis Joplin
as their lead singer. Their 1968 album
Cheap Thrills
is considered one of the masterpieces of the
psychedelic sound
of San Francisco; it reached number one on the
Billboard charts
, and was ranked number 338 in
Rolling Stone
s
the 500 greatest albums of all time
. The album is also included in the book
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
.
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