The grateful dead by jim marshall

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Breaking America was the making of The Who . Photographer Tom Wright was there to document it all

From Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests to extended residencies at Las Vegas’s hi-tech phenomenon the Sphere – and, soon, the storied stage of the Royal Albert Hall – it’s been a long, strange trip for BOBBY WEIR . But the guardian of the GRATEFUL DEAD ’ s legacy still has further to go. “Am I still on the bus now? Yeah, I am,” he tells Nick Hasted

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Sixty years ago, the CRATEFUL DEAD embarked on a mission that would freak out label bosses, exasperate producers, and turn on millions to the infinite possibilities of improvised psychedelic rock. DAVID FRIČKE heads back to 1960s San Francisco, and uncovers the method and madness behind the band's wildest musical phase. "The Grateful Dead is an anarchy." their accomplices reveal. "And that was good and bad."

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter