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Rock Impresario Bill Graham’s Sons Renew Estate, Memorabilia Fight

Source: HypeBot
November 16, 2017

Legendary concert promoter and music empresario Bill Graham died in 1991, but his sons are still locked in a bitter legal fight with the executor of his estate over his rock memorabilia, including hundreds of concert posters and scrapbooks. “Our clients have witnessed nearly a decade of litigation and it’s been hard. They found out a person they really trusted, their fiduciary, utterly betrayed their trust and arranged to sell things that had belonged to their dad,” attorney Therese Cannata ...
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Bill Graham Photo Exhibit in SF

Source: JamBase
June 4, 2011

FREE PHOTO EXHIBIT UNTIL MID JULY AT LUSH LIFE GALLERY, JAZZ HERITAGE CENTER IN SAN FRANCISCO The Bill Graham Memorial Foundation is very proud to announce the upcoming photo exhibit Presenting: Bill Graham—a journey through the astonishing life and times of Bill Graham, rock 'n' roll's greatest impresario. The free exhibit at the Lush Life Gallery at the Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco is open to the public until mid July. In his own words, (as chronicled in his ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Bill Graham

Source: JamBase
October 26, 2008

HE CHANGED LIVE MUSIC FOREVER AND LEFT A MARK ON AMERICAN CULTURE THAT'LL NEVER FADE

On this day in 1991 one of music's most influential, charismatic and volatile individuals, Bill Graham, died in a helicopter crash in Concord, California. Just 60 years old, Graham was, in many ways, the epitome of '60s Boomer ingenuity, a marvel of counter-culture savvy and Wall Street business smarts. A strong divider of opinion, Graham helped myriad now legendary acts get their ...
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