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Topic: Keith Richards on Bill Graham A&E Documentary

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05-13-02 08:18 AM

moy

CARLOS SANTANA, KEITH RICHARDS and members of the GRATEFUL DEAD,
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, the ALLMAN BROTHERS and the DOORS will be featured in an
A&E documentary about the life of legendary rock promoter BILL GRAHAM.
The film, which will be narrated by former J. GEILS BAND singer PETER
WOLF, will air on July 15th. "It's quite an interesting story," Wolf
told Rolling Stone. "He was a survivor of Nazi Germany. He went out to
California and started helping new bands and putting on shows. And the
rest, as they say, is rock & roll history." Graham was killed in a
helicopter crash in 1991.

05-13-02 08:29 AM

moy

A&E will air a documentary about the life of legendary rock promoter Bill Graham on July 15th. The hour-long program will feature interviews with Carlos Santana, Keith Richards and members of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane (whom Graham also managed), the Allman Brothers and the Doors. Former J. Geils Band singer Peter Wolf will serve as narrator.

"It's quite an interesting story," says Wolf. "He was a survivor of Nazi Germany. He escaped the Holocaust. He came to New York and wanted to become an actor and then got into producing shows and then went out to California, ran into a mime troupe there and helped them and then started helping new bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and then started putting on shows. And the rest, as they say, is rock & roll history."

Inextricably linked to the San Francisco psychedelic scene for his work in the Sixties, promoting shows at the Fillmore by the likes of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Santana, in later years Graham worked on a global scale, producing the 1985 Philadelphia Live Aid concert and assembling the Amnesty International "Conspiracy of Hope" tour, which featured U2, Sting and Peter Gabriel. In 1991, he was killed in a helicopter crash in Northern California, on his way home from a Huey Lewis and the News concert.

Wolf got to know Graham while a member of the J. Geils Band, and ultimately the group was asked by the promoter to appear on the closing night of the Fillmore East in New York City in June of 1971. "It was a great honor," says Wolf. "It was the end of that theater that held so much great music, from Hendrix to James Brown to Sly Stone."

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