Remembering Bill Graham on his birthday 🎂
📷 Thomas Monaster, New York, 1968
"Bill was our power guy, he’s the guy that made rock n’ roll into an art-form."
- Jerry Garcia
The Fillmore East marquee on the night Bill Graham pulled the plug, June 27, 1971.
"In a fitting climax, Albert King ripped up the joint. He was on opening night bill March 8, 1968. The house that rock built is dead."
- NY Daily News caption
📷 Thomas Monaster
Here's Bill Graham in the Fillmore East - nearly a full house.
📷 John Olson for Life, 1970
Bill Graham by Graham Nash
Butano Canyon, California, c. 1972
Francis Ford Coppola & Marlon Brando with Bill Graham. This was at "SF SNACK", a benefit concert at Kezar Stadium, organized to replace funds for after-school programs canceled by the San Francisco Unified School District.
📷 Michael Zagaris, March 23, 1975
Bill Graham & Francis Ford Coppola worked together again in 1979, on Apocalypse Now, where Graham had a bit part as a concert promoter introducing the Playboy Playmates. Type-casting.
Bill Graham backstage at Bob Dylan Tour 1974, Madison Square Garden
📷 Barry Feinstein
A fabulous shot by the late, great Baron Wolman at Woodstock: Bill Graham Backstage, 1969
And Bill Graham returns the favour: his photograph of Baron Wolman at Woodstock, 1969
Not framed as well as Baron's shot, Bill, but at least it's in focus. 6/10
A great portrait of Bill Graham by Baron Wolman.
Wolman was one of the great photographers we lost in 2021 #RIP
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