Big Brother & the Holding Company News

No one has any further information about how Whitney Houston died Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, other than TMZ's ongoing reports that she was apparently found in the bathtub, possibly from drowning , with prescription medicine nearby.

Well you're the real tough cookie with a long history Of breaking little hearts, like the one in me... Are you gonna take me home tonight? Are down beside that red firelight? Are you gonna let it all han... Wanna tell you about the girl, I love My she looks so fine She's the only one that I been dreamin' o... Company, always on the run Destiny is ... (more)

That is not Cincinnati's Natalie Wells. Wells wasn't particularly musical and didn't touch a guitar until she was 18.

Numbers of people have tried to revive the feeling. Brian May and Roger Taylor tried to keep the spirit going.

"Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968" is a previously unavailable live recording of Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company at a venue that was to become Bill Graham's Fillmore West after a short six-month run.

Forget Dusty Springfield, forget Sammy Hagar, and certainly forget Faith Hill. There are two versions of the Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns-composed "Piece of my Heart" classic that are worth giving a shit about.

It was the year America landed a man on the moon. Richard Nixon became president.

A new two-CD set, "Janis Joplin - The Pearl Sessions," to be released April 17, will offer an expanded two-disc set of her final studio album and include new studio outtakes and live performances.