This past year represented an extraordinary milestone for the Grateful Dead. The group debuted in 1965 and continues to ...

The cover of Len Dell’Amico’s memoir “Friend of the Devil.” Courtesy Weldon Owen. The Grateful Dead was a carnival centered on musical talent, full of joy, unpredictability, silliness (and in one ...

In folklore, “grateful dead” refers to the spirit of a deceased person who is given a proper burial by the protagonist of a story, then does him a favor down the road. In rock, for six decades, it has ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, one of the founding members of the iconic band Grateful Dead, died on Friday. He was 84. The sound Lesh and the other musicians in the group created would go on to become a defining ...

The vocalist spent the Seventies with the legendary group, and she also sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful mezzo-soprano who provided backing vocals on such 1960s classics as “Suspicious Minds” and “When a Man Loves a Woman” and was a featured singer ...