Bill Graham (promoter)

Bill Graham (born Wolfgang Grajonca January 8, 1931 in Berlin, Germany) was a well known concert promoter, beginning in the 1960s. Orphaned during the Holocaust, he was adopted by an American family.

As a concert promoter he operated the well known venues the Fillmore West and Winterland (both in San Francisco) and the Fillmore East (in New York City). He was also instrumental in commissioning and marketing psychedelic concert posters by designers including Wes Wilson and Rick Griffin. Graham occasionally appeared as an actor in films, including Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. He was killed in a helicopter crash in 1991.

External link

• Bill Graham Foundation