Thursday, 5. September 2002
Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:36:56 AM CEST
Book Says Grateful Dead Has Grand Place in History
Move over, Duke Ellington. Turn around, Miles Davis. Make room at the pinnacle of 20th century American music for the Grateful Dead. So says Dennis McNally, an historian who just published a 620-page biography, "A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead," now on The New York Times Bestseller list. McNally dismisses critics who say the Grateful Dead played folksy psychedelia that was little more than a soundtrack for the LSD trips of their obsessive fans -- the Deadheads.
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