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Bill Graham Presents

My Life Inside Rock And Out

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By Bill Graham

By Robert Greenfield

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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.

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  • "A worthy coda to the master showman's illustrious career, the book is at once a deeply personal and insightful history of modern rock."
    Rolling Stone
  • "One of the best-if not the best-books ever written about the world, and the business, of rock 'n' roll."
    New York Post
  • "An extraordinary insider account of the golden age of rock 'n' roll."
    Boston Globe

On Sale
May 5, 2004
Page Count
608 pages
Publisher
Da Capo
ISBN-13
9780306813498

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Bill Graham

About the Author

Robert Greenfield is the author of S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones and Dark Star: An Oral History of Jerry Garcia.

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Robert Greenfield

About the Author

Robert Greenfield, a former Associate Editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone magazine, has been published in eight different anthologies. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, GQ, and Playboy magazines. STP: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones has been re-published three times in England as well as in America by Da Capo Press in a thirtieth anniversary edition.

A long time member of the Writer’s Guild, Greenfield has taught English at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California; film at Chapman College in Monterey, California; and served as an Adjunct Professor of Composition and Literature at the University of San Francisco. He lives in California.

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