No simple highway
Subtitle: a cultural history of the Grateful Dead
By: Peter Richardson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781250010629
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Rock music; Social aspects; Rock musicians; Grateful Dead (Musical group); Biography
Other titles: Cultural history of the Grateful Dead
Description: "For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. [This is] the first book to ask the simple question of why--and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson ... recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the acid tests to the band's formation of their own record label to their massive late career success, while probing the riddle of the Dead's vast and durable appeal"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ecstasy; title: Mobility; title: Community.