25 years ago today (10/25/91), legendary promoter Bill Graham, who ran the Fillmore and Fillmore East venues and whose accomplishments in the music industry are unrivaled , died in a helicopter crash returning home from a Huey Lewis and the News concert along his girlfriend Melissa Gold and pilot Steve Kahn. Graham had attended the event to discuss promoting a benefit concert for the victims of the 1991 Oakland hills firestorm.Along with The Band’s “Last Waltz” final concert, Watkins Glen, US Festival and the Grateful Dead’s New Year’s Eve shows, Graham’s resume of shows he put are lengthy as well as the number of bands he helped get started that went to as legendary careers as himself. If anyone is due a biopic film, its certainly Mr. Bill Graham. Watch The Grateful Dead and Neil Young take on “Forever Young” at the Bill Graham Memorial Concert at Golden Gate Park on 11/3/91.
