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Be a Brother

psychedelic rock music album by Big Brother and the Holding Company, released in 1970
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Be a Brother

Summary

Be a Brother is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (92 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Be a Brother's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Be a Brother's genre is psychedelic rock[4].
  • Be a Brother followed Cheap Thrills[5].
  • Be a Brother was followed by How Hard It Is[6].
  • Be a Brother was produced by Nick Gravenites[7].
  • Be a Brother was performed by Big Brother and the Holding Company[8].
  • Be a Brother's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[9].
  • Be a Brother's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Be a Brother was distributed by music streaming[11].
  • Be a Brother was released on October 1970[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[13]

  • First release date: 1970[14]

  • Genre(s): blues rock, psychedelic rock, rock[15]

  • Community tags: blues rock, psychedelic rock, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: d946b107-cab4-4b03-9624-fe9758a78c46[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Be a Brother was performed by Big Brother and the Holding Company[8]. It was produced by Nick Gravenites[7].

Publication

Be a Brother was published on October 1970[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is psychedelic rock[4]. It was distributed by music streaming[11].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Be a Brother followed Cheap Thrills[5]. It was followed by How Hard It Is[6].

Why It Matters

Be a Brother ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (92 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Columbia Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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