Big Brother & The Holding Company

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Years Active
1965 – present (61 years)
Founded In
San Francisco, California, United States
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 US Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The band w… read more
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 th… read more
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 considere… read more

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1 Play track The Psychedelic Years Piece of My Heart
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 907 listeners
2 Play track 100 Flower Power Hits - The Sound Of My Life Summertime
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 419 listeners
3 Play track Monterey International Pop Festival 1967 Ball and Chain
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4 Play track Tribal Stomp I Need a Man to Love
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5 Play track Cheap Thrills Combination of the Two
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6 Play track Big Brother & The Holding Company Call On Me
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7 Play track Cheap Thrills Turtle Blues
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 68 listeners
8 Play track Rock: The Train Kept A Rollin’ Down On Me
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9 Play track Cheap Thrills Oh, Sweet Mary
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10 Play track In Concert Bye, Bye Baby
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Albums

  1. 521,722 listeners

    12 Aug 1968 · 7 tracks

    Cheap Thrills
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  2. 180,512 listeners

    1966 · 12 tracks

    Big Brother & The Holding Company
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  3. 42,157 listeners

    2007 · 12 tracks

    Hold Me: Live In Germany
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  4. 17,815 listeners

    1998 · 13 tracks

    Do What You Love
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