Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306813498)

Gritty, moving, funny, and always fascinating, Bill Graham Presents is the inside story of the explosive and unforgettable man who created the business of rock.

As a child, Bill Graham fled Europe to escape Hitler's armies. He grew up on the streets of New York and in the dining rooms of the hotels in the Catskills. After failing as an actor, he headed for San Francisco right before the Summer of Love where he founded the Fillmore and launched the rock icons of a generation--Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, the Grateful Dead, and more. He was a complex, caring, compassionate whirlwind of energy who rock stars either loved or hated.

In his own voice and those of the people who knew him--Jerry Garcia, Keith Richards, Grace Slick, Ken Kesey, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Carlos Santana--we hear Bill's story as well as the scoop on the major events in rock for more than three decades, ending with his tragic death in a 1991 helicopter crash.

Author: Bill Graham, Robert Greenfield
ISBN-10: 0306813491
ISBN-13: 9780306813498
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2004
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.60d