Book DescriptionThe national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry 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 огчоч 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 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.  Переводчик:2004 г 576 стр ISBN 0306813491.