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	Bill Graham
		Graham was born Wolfgang Grajonca on January 8, 1931, in Berlin and literally walked across Europe to escape the Nazis.
		Graham grasped the potential: something electrifying was beginning to happen in San Francisco, and the scene lacked only a focused, business-oriented mind to harness its power.
		January 8, 1931: Bill Graham was born in Berlin, Germany.
	www.rockhall.com /inductee/bill-graham (626 words)

	Bill Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable William C. (Bill) Graham, PC, MP, QC, B.A.(Hon.), LL.D, D.U., (born March 17, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec) is Canada's Minister of National Defence, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
		In the cabinet shuffle that followed the 2004 Canadian election, Graham was moved to the Defence portfolio.
		Bill Graham is a former member of the Trilateral Commission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Graham (640 words)

	BILL GRAHAM FOUNDATION--Biography
		Bill Graham was born Wolfgang Grajonca, the child of Russian Jews who had moved to Berlin before his birth in 1931.
		Bill and his sister were in France as part of a student exchange program when the German army invaded.
		Bill was one of eleven who survived the trek; his sister perished on the trek.
	www.billgrahamfoundation.org /bio.html (250 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Divinity School's acting dean named to post
		Graham is a dedicated teacher of undergraduate and graduate students, and an experienced academic leader.
		Graham has held a series of administrative posts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, from 1997 to 2002, and chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard from 1987 to 1990.
		Graham also served as director of the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1990 to 1996, and as chair of the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion for the United States and Canada.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/08.22/01-graham.html (988 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bill Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bill Graham revolutionized the music industry by providing a forum for the explosion of artistic expression in rock and roll during the 1960s.
		Graham developed few memories of his family, having spent his formative years surrounded by air raids and bomb shelters, and as the Nazis pushed into France in 1941, Bill was separated from his ailing sister as he fled (mostly on foot) with the other refugees.
		Bill Graham filled this void by opening the Fillmore Auditorium, which quickly became the performance space for important cultural and musical events.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200475 (1074 words)

	Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada: Bill Graham: portrait of a jazz drummer
		At 65, Bill Graham is a sturdy veteran of the Winnipeg (his birthplace), Montreal, Vancourver and Toronto jazz scenes.
		Bill Graham has been making bebop music since 1948, which, coincidentally, was around the time that bebop was born.
		Katie Malloch, who hosted the Bill Graham Quintet (with Mike Lewis on piano) on CBC Jazz Beat in 1992, said that "his bebop is bred in the bone." Graham's ride-cymbal patterns are his signature, and they are made even more fluid when he drops in offbeats on his bass drum.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_n1_v29/ai_15950984 (1263 words)

	Remembering Bill Graham by Seth Rogovoy
		As much as Graham accomplished professionally -- which was considerable, starting out as he did a penniless war orphan and winding up a multi-millionaire, all by the dint of a career he improvised practically out of thin air -- Greenfield says that there was a tragic side to Graham.
		Graham's dramatic story begins with his fateful march across Europe ahead of the Nazis and ends with his death in a helicopter crash in 1991 at age 60.
		Graham was midwife to the psychedelic San Francisco scene, nurturing such groundbreaking outfits as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.
	www.berkshireweb.com /rogovoy/interviews/graham.html (1049 words)

	WFMU Message Board - Bill Graham's rock archives
		The memorabilia seller offers treasures from the stash of promoter Bill Graham, programmer of San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, who died in 1991.
		Entrepreneur Bill Sagan paid more than $5 million for the cache in 2003.
		He named it in honor of Graham, who was born Wolfgang Grajonca in Germany.
	www.wfmu.org /messageboard/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=WFMU;action=display;num=1139958454 (747 words)

	Bill Graham - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Bill Graham was the P.T. Barnum of rock and roll, an unparalleled showman who forever revolutionized the symbiotic relationship between artists and audiences.
		In 1951 Graham was drafted to serve in Korea, earning the Bronze Star for valor in the battlefield; upon returning stateside he went to work as a waiter at a summer resort in the Catskills, in the meanwhile pursuing a career as an actor.
		Graham was also instrumental in helping launch the careers of acts including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Santana, all of whom played pivotal early gigs at the Fillmore; his success on the San Francisco circuit earned him recognition across the country, and in early 1968 he returned to New York to open the Fillmore East.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,723039,00.html (1194 words)

	The Fillmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bill Graham was a veteran of the artistic community, but his greatest talents were his keen business acumen and his ability to organize events, creating comfortable and safe atmospheres without stifling the creative energies around him.
		Maintaining high aesthetic standards and calling on limitless personal energy, Bill pulled together a workforce that functioned as a family, and was a prime nurturing force in San Francisco's burgeoning scene.
		On April 19, Bill was again refused a permit and on the 22nd the police, incensed by a cartoon in the previous day's San Francisco Chronicle, raided The Fillmore and arrested 14 kids.
	www.thefillmore.com /history1.asp (368 words)

	Eye - Graham in the balance - 06.24.04
		Graham insists he's not running out, but juggling the demands of his ministerial foreign affairs portfolio, which he says require a trip to Europe for an important NATO conference.
		In the meantime, Graham is avoiding the grind of glad-handing door to door (lone women find such visits creepy, he says, and he could spend four hours in a building and find only eight eligible voters), and focusing instead on coffee klatches, organized meet-and-greets and rush-hour subway commuters.
		Graham's signs are the target of undoubtedly the loveliest graffiti of the campaign: three neighbouring posters defaced in sequence with the words to Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," now on permanent display in his Gerrard Street East campaign office.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.24.04/city/graham.html (1166 words)

	CBC News: Graham 'frustrated' by lack of Arar information
		Graham says he did give them hell, but he now believes that Powell was wrong about Canadian involvement, while the RCMP and the Canadian Security intelligence Service (CSIS) were telling the truth.
		Graham also differed from his former director of consular affairs, Gar Pardy, who testified last week that it was widely assumed that Arar was being tortured.
		Graham says he had no illusions that Syrian prisons were like those in Canada, but he had no reason to believe that there had been any torture.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/05/30/graham-arar050530.html (418 words)

	Bill Graham
		His father's life having been claimed in an accident just days after Bill's birth, his mother was forced to place both him and one of his sisters in an orphanage; later, while studying in France on an exchange program, the two were forced to flee the country during the Nazi invasion.
		Graham eventually made his way to New York and was raised in foster home in the Bronx.
		In 1980, Graham began occasionally hosting performances in the original Fillmore building, and by 1988 a branch of the now-monstrous entity Bill Graham Presents was again regularly presenting shows until the club was forced to close as a result of structural damage suffered in the 1989 earthquake.
	www.nndb.com /people/560/000044428 (534 words)

	Presenting Bill Graham / Ron Silver brings legendary rock impresario to life in solo show
		In ``Bill Graham Presents,'' the 53-year-old Manhattan-born actor, known for playing Henry Kissinger and Alan Dershowitz, explores the complex, dark inner workings of Graham, who died at 61 in a helicopter crash in 1991.
		In between, Graham pours out his turbulent life story -- his childhood escape from the Nazis; his youth in the Bronx; his stint as a mambo-loving waiter in the Catskills; his beginnings at the Fillmore Auditorium, when hippies were in flower.
		He portrays Graham as a pill-popping, vodka-swilling egomaniac with strong undercurrents of self-loathing and a soupcon of buffoonery for laughs.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/10/DD52133.DTL&type=printable (790 words)

	Walfredo: Photos: Remembering Bill Graham
		We owe it to Bill for the San Francisco music venues we hold dear, and the phenomenon that he invented, a Rock Concert.
		Bill's vision was to create a space where people could gather and enjoy music and performance art in a safe, comfortable, and creative setting.
		Bill was as much a fan of the music and art of his generation as the people that patroned the venues he created throughout his career, from his first, the Fillmore Auditorium, to one of his last, The Shoreline Amphitheatre.
	www.walfredo.com /bill_graham.html (302 words)

	Amazon.com: Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out: Books: Bill Graham,Robert Greenfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bill Graham was an inspiring, hard-headed, revolutionary and daring character that made the concert experience what it is today, both for punters and roadies.
		Graham was able to present virtually all the cutting edge bands of the time, including some acts, like Santana and the Allman Brothers, before they even had their first record out.
		Graham did with BGP, the Fillmore, and the Shoreline, to name but a few, was so enriching to the Bay Area musical community, not to mention he also put on shows in the far reaches of the world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306813491?v=glance (1920 words)

	Vintage T-Shirts, Rock Posters, Concert T-Shirts, Concert Posters, Rock T-Shirts, Concert Shirt, Music Memorabilia, ...
		Wolfgang was Bill Graham, the man whose genius for bringing performer and audience together shaped the rock concert as we have come to know it.
		Bill Graham, who would come to be known as the midwife of the modern rock concert, was smart and forward-thinking, an opportunist and a listener, fair and ferociously demanding, and he remembered his roots: in the 1980s he opened a small San Francisco club and named it Wolfgang's.
		Graham's creative vision led him to commission true works of art to promote his shows and, fortunately for the modern collector, his entrepreneurial instincts led him to overprint and preserve the exceptional art, photography and recordings that came from these shows.
	www.wolfgangsvault.com /About.aspx?LeftNav=none (562 words)

	Worldandnation: Party backs Graham's drug bill
		But their bill was delayed by jurisdictional squabbles and intense disagreement over whether it also should increase reimbursements for hospitals, HMOs and doctors.
		Graham's bill does not include increases for providers, but Democrats say they are planning to offer separate legislation to accomplish the same thing.
		The Republican bill will include a variety of other changes in the existing Medicare program designed to to save money; Graham's bill simply creates a drug benefit and does nothing to alter the basic Medicare program.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/06/12/news_pf/Worldandnation/Party_backs_Graham_s_.shtml (872 words)

	Community Page / GD Almanac V8_1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The pioneering rock impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991) liked to say that he was "in the business of turning people on." And he did just that for more than a quarter-century -- turning millions on, not just to the music of countless great artists, but also to great ideas, great issues, great causes.
		Bill never hesitated to put his time, his vision and his boundless energy to work in the service of people and organizations in need.
		The Foundation is guided by an advisory board consisting of Bill's sons, several longtime employees of his company, Bill Graham Presents, and a rotating group of current employees, elected by the entire company staff.
	www.dead.net /almanac/v8_1/pages/page2.html (963 words)

	Bill Graham Presents
		In November of 1965, Bill Graham produced his first concert, a benefit for the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
		In 1998, Bill Graham Presents was acquired by SFX Entertainment, the largest network of entertainment venues and producers in the world.
		The Bill Graham Foundation was formed in November 1991 following the death of Bill Graham.
	www.websightdesign.com /clients/bgpwebsite/about.html (509 words)

	Senate Republicans push military prison oversight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The bill could be offered to a defense authorization bill, or the senators could try to move it in another fashion this summer.
		Graham said he didn’t know whether the legislation would be offered as an amendment to the defense authorization bill, which is awaiting Senate floor consideration.
		Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) told The Hill that he hopes to take up the $442 billion defense bill for 2006 in the “next block” of legislative time in July but that he couldn’t yet commit to it because of other matters on the agenda.
	www.hillnews.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/063005/senate.html (832 words)

	Bill Graham - Book
		Graham, a Holocaust survivor transplanted to the streets of New York City, was the visionary who shaped a new partnership between performer and audience, and he managed what would become a billion-dollar, world-wide business from his nerve center in San Francisco.
		A peripatetic and passionate man, Bill Graham's story is told through the unvarnished comments, recollections and observations of his contemporaries and, in the telling, the history of rock as a musical phenomenon and social force unfolds.
		The legendary promoter Bill Graham, the historic venues he opened and closed, the artwork created to advertise and commemorate the events, and the performers who graced those beloved stages have become legendary for their uniqueness in time, medium and message.
	www.wolfgangsvault.com /CatalogDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=ZZZ001130&ProductTypeID=BK&_tv= (215 words)

	Jewhoo! - Biographies
		The Fillmore East was, of course, Bill Graham’s flagship rock palace on the East Coast.
		Bill Graham was a German Jewish refugee who barely escaped to China and then immigrated to America.
		Graham, as the book states, was a success because he was both a good businessman and someone who really cared about his audience and the performers.
	www.jewhoo.com /editor/profiles/amalierothschild.html (969 words)

	Bill Graham: Promoting Rock and Roll
		Graham owned the Fillmore, San Francisco's premier club of the 1960s and also Fillmore East, which he opened in New York City in 1968.
		Bill Graham was born to Jewish-Russian parents in 1931 and was orphaned soon after.
		Hart was a soda jerk; Graham was a waiter.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/roadshow/series/highlights/2004/oklahomacity/fts_hour3_1.html (660 words)

	Bill Graham Presents
		Since then, Bill Graham Presents has continued to strive to bring the best of professionalism, creativity and experience to the leisure time industry.
		Bill Graham Management provides artist development and career management for the Neeville Brothers, Aaron Neville, Black Lab, Brother Cane, Joe Satriani, Cracker, Taj Mahal, among many other signed acts.
		In 1998, Bill Graham Enterprises was pruchased by SFX Entertainment, a publicly held company and the country's leading promoter abnd venue operator for live entertainment events and specialized motor events.
	www.yubasutterez.com /bill_graham_presents.htm (634 words)

	Concert Vault - Where Live Music Lives,Streaming Free Music, Live Concert Downloads
		Bill Graham launched the rock and roll concert industry in the mid-1960s.
		Graham's first venue, the ground-breaking Fillmore Auditorium, was home to many of rock's greatest performers; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Otis Redding and Jefferson Airplane.
		Graham also taped thousands of live performances and stored the tapes in the basement of the BGP headquarters.
	concerts.wolfgangsvault.com /Static.aspx?Type=About/aboutCV.htm (1209 words)

	Bill Graham Excerpt from My Husband the Rock Star
		Bill was good at making people scurry if he wanted them to.
		Bill Graham was brilliant, handsome, and possessed with manic energy.
		Bill was a direct oxymoron compared to the musicians.
	www.classicrockpage.com /lounge/QMS/billgraham.htm (488 words)

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