[citation needed]. Graham had a profound influence around the world, sponsoring the musical renaissance of the '60s from the epicenter, San Francisco. The concert was a success and Graham saw a business opportunity. He went to California to work as a statistician for the Southern Pacific Company, and his other jobs included being a paymaster for a construction contractor and statistician for a trucking company. He was 60 years old. Graham had five sisters, Rita, Evelyn, Sonia, Ester and Tolla, the elder four of whom survived the Holocaust. [52], Graham was killed in a helicopter crash[53] west of Vallejo, California, on October 25, 1991, while returning home from a Huey Lewis and the News concert at the Concord Pavilion. But his heart was in social and political charity work - organizing benefit concerts like the 1985 Live Aid concert to fight famine, the 1986 Conspiracy of Hope tour, and the 1988 Human Rights Now international tour for Amnesty International. San Francisco music critic Ralph Gleason, in defense of Graham's Fillmore Auditorium scene, wrote that Graham got a three-year lease for the Fillmore Auditorium from Charles Sullivan and was still struggling to procure his dance hall permit. One of the early concerts Graham sponsored, with Chet Helms hired to promote it, featured the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Workers used a large crane to clear away the wreckage. He was the manager of the Jefferson Airplane during 1967 and 1968. _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); [59] An estimated 300,000 people attended to view many of the entertainment acts Graham had supported including Santana, the Grateful Dead, John Fogerty, Robin Williams, Journey (reunited), and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (reunited). Jay Farmer said. In the 1980s, he teamed up with BASS Tickets which tended to drive small ticket-distribution companies out of business in the Bay Area, creating a de facto monopoly. Graham was in France at the time, meeting with Bob Geldof to organize the first Live Aid concert. ″That’s where she stopped, and we kept on going, and I wanted to stay there. They jumped him and stabbed him to death. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Former BGP President/CEO Gregg Perloff and former Senior Vice President Sherry Wasserman left and started their own company, Another Planet Entertainment. The police were undetermined whether it was suicide or homicide. That was the place. The copter remained suspended in power lines today, and the cause of the crash was under investigation. var _gaq = _gaq || []; An enormous crowd had gathered by 1 p.m. to hear the eulogy for a friend. On July 4, 1939, he was sent from Germany to France to escape the Nazis. During the same month that Reagan visited the cemetery, Graham's office was firebombed by Neo-Nazis. Such practices were targeted by the California Senate in S.B. "[18] The funeral announcement is accompanied by photographs of the actual funeral covering two pages in which police are stopping traffic to assist the motorcade to the Cemetery in Colma. Graham was the group’s business manager. Graham owned Fillmore Records, which was in operation from 1969 to 1976. Bill Graham helicopter crash; Bell 206B Jetranger similar to accident aircraft. (function() { Its only opposition came from a few bands, notably Pearl Jam, which protested that the company's high ticketing fees were unfair to music fans. The weather was rainy and cold, with low clouds. He had an eye for pleasing his audience, while making an effort to educate them in styles of music they would otherwise not have been exposed to. Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley, Ltd. 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