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  2. Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was an American impresario and rock concert promoter. In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco , and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe . [1]

  3. Oct 27, 1991 · Bill Graham, the acid-tongued concert promoter who championed rock acts during San Francisco’s psychedelic era and went on to play a leading role in pop music’s emergence as a cultural force,...

  4. Feb 13, 2020 · Bill Graham — the promoter who got started in hippie-era San Francisco, opened the Fillmore East in New York City in 1968 and went on to present concerts worldwide — was by no means...

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  5. Oct 25, 2016 · He fled Nazi Germany as a child at the start of World War II, and became a tireless promoter of social causes, helping to stage such benefits as Live Aid in 1985 and 1986's A Conspiracy of...

  6. Recognized as one of the most influential concert promoters in history, Bill Graham (January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) launched the careers of countless rock ’n’ roll legends in the 1960s at his famed Fillmore Auditorium, and was a prime mover behind the 1967 Summer of Love.

  7. Sep 21, 2016 · The promoter behind the American production was Bill Graham, by then a music industry legend who had transformed the business of rock ’n’ roll beginning in the mid-1960s in San Francisco.

  8. Oct 25, 2023 · Learn how Bill Graham, a Holocaust survivor and a visionary, created a music scene out of thin air and promoted legendary concerts and venues. Discover his impact on the live music industry and his tragic death in 1991.

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