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From Fela Kuti to Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead – the story of music manager Rikki Stein

Rikki Stein, born into a regular, middle-class home in the UK, has had what must have seemed an unlikely career. As a music manager he has toured the world in the company of music legends – from the late Nigerian Afrobeat star Fela Kuti to American rockers The Grateful Dead…

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Francis Ford Coppola, Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt Get Kennedy Center Honors

Event will air on CBS and Paramount Plus in December

Broadcasting & Cable

The Grateful Dead and Francis Ford Coppola are among the newest Kennedy Center Honors recipients

A filmmaking legend and one of the world’s most enduring musical acts headline this year’s crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients

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Grateful Dead's 'From The Mars Hotel' Sees Massive Sales Surge

Discover the remarkable resurgence of the Grateful Dead's classic album 'From The Mars Hotel' on music charts, celebrating its 50th anniversary with a delu...

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“I played the solo perfectly – and there was silence in the room. It was crickets. Everyone was looking down, I couldn’t believe it”: Elliot Easton on The Cars’ early years – and the guitar solo that moved him to tears of rage

From playing a ukulele aged 3 to discovering the organic nature of signature guitars, he shares his secret to choosing the perfect gear first time round

Guitar World

The venue that came back from the dead

In the late 60s, a disused Victorian railway shed in North London hosted some of the most unforgettable and legendary gigs, raves and all-night freak-outs of all time

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"Your skin is just goosebumps, electric as can be": Watch NBA legend Bill Walton tell a beautiful story about taking the Boston Celtics to watch the Grateful Dead

Late basketball legend Bill Walton was famously a lifelong Deadhead, witnessing the Grateful Dead live more than 850 times

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“I swear that guitar plays itself… Who’d have thought a 16-year-old girl like me could suddenly have this crazy connection with Jerry Garcia?” Meet Bella Rayne, the guitarist who jumped from Mom’s Strat to wielding Garcia’s ’Gator onstage

Bay Area grunge fan, who started playing during lockdown, is loaded with advice for other young guitarists – and she’s even starting to heed it herself

Guitar World

"Kids tell me: 'I wanna be a rock star.' I say: 'Nah, get a job in a clothing store instead'": Steve Miller on LSD, boredom and salvation

Rock's grumpy old man Steve Miller on fame, the Grateful Dead, and why kids should think twice about becoming rock stars

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"It’s a common misconception among the unconverted that the Grateful Dead’s music was characterised by aimless noodling, rather than by deftly deployed fretboard know-how": 5 songs guitarists need to hear by the Grateful Dead

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“I’m old enough to know that the Top 40 is a fickle mistress. I have no desire to get caught on that treadmill”: Bruce Hornsby on The Way It Is, having a hit with Don Henley and being “the Sid Vicious of the accordion world”

As he releases a new album with experimental chamber ensemble, yMusic, the singer-songwriter and pianist looks back on his storied career

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Live sound and Talk Box pioneer Bob Heil has died, aged 83: “I can never thank him enough,” says Peter Frampton

Audio industry legend worked with the Grateful Dead, The Who and many others

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Grateful Dead Breaks Record For Most Top 40 Albums

Grateful Dead's latest live recording debuts at No. 25 on Billboard 200, continuing their chart success with 58 top 40 albums.

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The Independent UK

How to spend a day in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco’s historic home of counterculture

The Summer of Love bestowed this district with its bona fide cool factor in the 1960s, but Richard Franks discovers that its charm remains in hipster stores, diverse places to eat and trendy bars

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“Grace was three sheets to the wind, so Marty sang to her while holding her in an arm-lock so she couldn’t get away”: the epic, drunken and very crazy story of Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship rose from the ashes of San Francisco’s late 60s hippie movement, but they swapped peace and love for booze, bickering and chaos

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Kiss performs its final concert. But has the band truly reached the 'End of the Road'?

The 50-year-old heavy rock group performs the final concert of its "End of the Road" tour Saturday in New York. But it's said farewell before.

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“Christine had been killed. The studio was somewhere I could go where I’d feel something other than lost”: how David Crosby turned grief into hazy magic on his solo masterpiece If I Could Only Remember My Name

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“Jerry's most sophisticated guitar setup… the culmination of decades of experimentation with state of the art gear”: Jerry Garcia’s final touring rig – featuring Bob Weir’s revered Wall of Sound McIntosh amp and an embedded pedal panel – is up for auction

The Grateful Dead guitar legend’s final rig is open to bids and it features a bit of 2-for-1 gear history

Guitar World

“People have said, ‘Oh, man, you gotta play the Gibson, that’s the real deal.’ But there’s something about the Ibanez… I prefer the evenness of it”: John Scofield on working with Miles Davis, covering Bob Dylan and the agony of writing music

The jazz improv virtuoso returns with Uncle John's Band, an album that finds him covering Bob Dylan, Neil Young and, of course, the Grateful Dead

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On this day: Boston sees the Grateful Dead in concert; Shaw, Hunter debut

On this day, several Boston Celtics accompanied resident Deadhead and Celtics center Bill Walton to see the Grateful Dead in concert in 1985.

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"It's a perfect match. Forest Green Rovers is a team that really follows Grateful Dead values": The world's greenest, most vegan-friendly football club have launched a range of Deadhead merch

In unexpected partnership news, The Grateful Dead have launched a range of merchandise with English fourth-tier football club Forest Green Rovers

The Independent UK

San Francisco's music scene in the 1960s and '70s takes center stage in an MGM+ docuseries

“San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time” is a two-part documentary on MGM+ that concludes Sunday

AVNetwork

The Grateful Dead’s Enduring Legacy Intertwines with Meyer Sound Systems

PANTHER carries Dead & Company through the final chapter of a musical epic.

The Guardian - US

‘They thought they were immortal’: the rise and fall of San Francisco’s 60s music scene

A new docuseries explores the ‘untold stories’ of the musicians at the centre of a creative boom and what happened when tragedy struck

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