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Future historians may find it convenient to date the end of the Rock Era as the last week of April 1971. It came with neither bang nor whimper -only the booming, Bronxoid voice of Wolfgang Grajonca, better known as Bill Graham, announcing that he had had it. Graham is closing down Manhattan's Fillmore East (this summer) and San Francisco's Fillmore West (next fall)-the two cathedrals of the loud, hard-driving sound that for a memorable decade has been the soul of youth's counterculture. The reason Graham gave was that rock had gained...
Bill Graham is a solid, no-nonsense name for a dynamic businessman who in the past four years has made himself a millionaire, acquired a Mercedes, a 29-year-old wife, a baby boy, and offices in both San Francisco and Manhattan. Wolfgang Grajonca, on the other hand, seems a more appropriate title for a temperamental typhoon of promotional creativity, whose obscenity-flavored conversation often builds to a scream, whose business conferences are likely to explode into happenings, and whose office costume usually consists of dirty corduroys and a short-sleeved sweatshirt. That both Bill and Wolfgang inhabit the same...
...killed in an accident. In order to be free to work, his mother eventually placed Wolfgang and his younger sister in an orphanage. The two were transferred to France on a student-exchange program and then stranded there when World War II broke out. After the Germans invaded, the Grajonca children were rounded up by a Red Cross worker for a march to Marseilles; the girl died of malnutrition on the way, but Wolfgang survived the ordeal and subsequently made it to New York. Raised in a Jewish foster home in The Bronx, Wolfgang Grajonca officially became Bill Graham...
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