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Bill Graham *) Presents in San Francisco

Rolling Stones

Saturday October 17th, 1981 11 AM

Candlestick Park

A Jovan Presentation

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Bill Graham was a legendary rock concert
promoter who arranged tours for bands li-
ke the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane,
and Big Brother and the Holding Compa-
ny with Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones
and the Who from the 1960s until the '90s.

With the success of the benefit under his
belt, Graham began producing and pro-
moting shows at the Fillmore in San Fran-
cisco. He fought seemingly endless batt-
les with neighborhood figures who were
against his activities, and managed to put
on shows featuring unique mixes of talent
such as Lenny Bruce opening for the Mot-
hers of Invention, plays by LeRoi Jones
headlined by The Byrds, and a reading by
poets Andrei Voznesensky and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti at a Jefferson Airplane show.
He also began booking black artists who
had never before played for white audien-
ces, including Otis Redding, B.B. King,
Lightning Hopkins, Chuck Berry, Howlin'
Wolf and Muddy Waters. Graham also
brought the Doors and Jimi Hendrix to
San Francisco for the first time and sta-
ged the Who's first San Francisco show,
a two-night set held at the Fillmore.

Graham then founded a festival in Oak-
land, California, where Led Zeppelin, the
Eagles and the Grateful Dead, among se-
veral other well-known rock bands, played
before more than 50,000 people, and sta-
ged arena rock tours by George Harrison,
Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash and
Young. In 1975, Graham helped create
the rock merchandising industry with his
Winterland Productions, the first retailer
of T-shirts that allowed musicians to recei-
ve royalties.

In 1976, Graham put on "The Last Waltz,"
a farewell concert by the Band and later,
the title of a film about the concert direc-
ted by Martin Scorsese. In 1981, he plan-
ned and managed the Rolling Stones co-
lossal stadium tour of the United States.

In 1985, Graham produced the American
Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, raising more than
$45 million to fight hunger in Africa. The
following year, he put together the six-city
"Conspiracy of Hope" tour to celebrate the
25th anniversary of Amnesty International
a concert featuring U2, the Police, Peter
Gabriel and Lou Reed, among several ot-
her rockers of the time. He then arranged
the "Human Rights Now!" tour, and soon
after, he held a relief concert for victims
of a Bay Area earthquake and gathered
60,000 people to welcome Nelson Man-
dela to Oakland.

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