By: Andy Gensler
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The Trail Blazer: Bill Graham circa 1971 outside New York City’s Fillmore East which, along with the Fillmore West, helped set the bar for what live music clubs could be.
A few days after Jan. 8, 2021, on what
would have been legendary promoter Bill Graham’s 90th birthday, Pollstar spoke with Robert Greenfield, co-author of “Bill Graham Presents: My
Life Inside Rock And Out.” This wildly engrossing read not only chronicles
Graham’s impossible rise his harrowing escape from the Holocaust,
his adoption in the Bronx and barely surviving the Korean War but also
documents the rise of the modern concert business as we know it