Photo: Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company. L-R: David Getz, Janis Joplin, Sam Andrew, James Gurley and Peter Albin, c. 1967. Credit: Grossman Glotzer Management Corporation; Wikimedia Commons.

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