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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 self-effacing.
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. By Jeff Tamarkin. Sunday afternoon, November 3, 1991, was a great day for a free concert in Golden Gate Park with the Grateful Dead, Santana, Joan Baez, John Fogerty and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It was a classic San Francisco party with a 300,000-plus crowd, staged — of course — by Bill Graham Presents.
May 6, 2022 · Photos: How SF promoter Bill Graham built a rock & roll empire and changed the music industry in the process. Most local music fans will be familiar with Bill Graham on some level, even if only subconsciously. Reminders of his influence and monuments to his life’s work—which was devoted to harnessing the countercultural ethos of rock & roll ...
Oct 25, 2023 · Unfortunately, the story of Bill Graham came to a tragic end, as his life was cut short when his helicopter crashed leaving a Huey Lewis and the News show at Concord Pavillion on this day in 1991 ...
Oct 27, 1991 · Bill Graham, who escaped Nazi Germany to become America's leading promoter of rock musicians and who helped develop the mass rock concert format that drew audiences totaling in the millions, was ...
Oct 25, 2016 · Legendary concert and festival promoter Bill Graham, who died 25 years ago today, was a singular force whose impact is still being felt in large and small ways.Like no other promoter before or ...
Oct 28, 1991 · In the narrowest of terms, Graham was the nation’s most celebrated rock promoter--a man who staged concerts or entire tours over the past 2 1/2 decades for such major attractions as the Rolling ...
