Talk:Bill Graham (promoter)

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Someone needs to include an item about Bill Graham's nightclub that he opened on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco back in the early 80's. The place was called Wolfgang's (not to be confused with Wolfgang's Vault). StevenHW 09:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I thought that stevie ray vaughan also died in the helecopter crash?

Vaughan died a year earlier in a separate plane crash Alcuin 14:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] External links

I think we can do without external links here to groups that Graham promoted--we'd end up with a very long list indeed! It should be sufficient to link to the wikiarticle of each of the more prominent groups mentioned within the article.--BillFlis 12:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Side note about Bill Graham: In the early eighties I had a sales job selling office equipment to business from Marin through Sonoma counties. I stumbled into Bill's Petaluma office one day early in the summer and he immediately treated me as I was a long time friend. He had a new folder on his desk that he'd just labeled "Nubes in the News". My curiosity was up and I asked him what that meant. He showed me.

Inside the folder he had the cover page of the local Santa Rosa paper. On the cover was a picture of a attractive soaking wet girl coming out of the water at a popular swimming spot in Santa Rosa with some headline about the changing weather. It was obvious by the picture that the water was cold (get my drift?)

And thus "Nubes in the News". Every desk I've ever had and every computer that I've ever set up files on has since had a folder called "Nubes in the News".

Bill Graham was a nice guy and I'm glad to have had a story to tell about him.

JR Fent jrfent.com added June 6, 2008

[edit] problems in Death Section

BG was persuaded by the bass player not to take the helicopter; the helicopter crashed; BG was killed. That's a non sequitur ('It does not follow'.) Can someone clean this up? (JM, Nov 06.)

Melissa Gold redirects to some superhero. Either remove the link or create a Melissa Gold page (breaking the current auto-redirect). 85.227.226.168 08:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, the "day that music died" seems completely unreferenced, including the use of the "many believe" problematic wording. Please reword, remove or at least slap a "ref needed" tag onto this. 85.227.226.168 08:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Obvious missing reference?

I'm not particularly a fan of or knowledgeable about either, but whilst reading Lenny Bruce's entry I read that Bill Graham was the promoter of Lenny's last ever series of shows - and therefore of Bruce's last ever performance (just five weeks before the comedian's death). There's even a poster [1] for the event right here on wikipedia. Surely this info is relevant to the Bill Graham page, perhaps as part of the "involved in the counter-culture" section? I was surprised not to find any mention of Bruce at all in this article. Redpola 08:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Sisters

Graham's mother died in Auschwitz. Graham had four sisters, Rita, Evelyn, Sonja, Ester and Tolla (Tanya). His sister Ester survived Auschwitz.

Four sisters or five? Flapdragon (talk) 10:45, 8 December 2007 (UTC)