Bill Graham (promoter)

==Death==
{{Main article|1991 Vallejo helicopter crash}}

Graham died in a [[helicopter]] crash<ref name=ntsb>{{cite web |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X18336&key=1&queryId=b34d69b9-68ea-4f08-b92b-3a981b73f098&pgno=3&pgsize=50 |title=NTSB Identification: LAX92LA029 |author=NTSB |date=April 27, 1993 |website=ntsb.gov |publisher=NTSB |access-date=June 16, 2015}}</ref> west of [[Vallejo, California]], on October 25, 1991, while returning home from a [[Huey Lewis and the News]] concert at the [[Concord Pavilion]].<ref name="Obituary">{{cite news |last=Lambert |first=Bruce |date=October 27, 1991 |title=Bill Graham, Rock Impresario, Dies at 60 in Crash |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5D61131F934A15753C1A967958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |access-date=April 17, 2008}}</ref> He had attended the event to discuss promoting a benefit concert for the victims of the 1991 [[Oakland hills firestorm]].<ref name=ck6>{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Graham-N3456M.htm|title=Bill Graham's Stairway to Heaven|author=Check Six|date=November 22, 2014 |website=check-six.com|publisher=|access-date=June 16, 2015}}</ref> Once he had obtained a commitment from [[Huey Lewis]] to perform, he departed by helicopter, which collided with a high-voltage tower in [[Marin County, California]]. Fatalities included Graham, pilot and advance man Steve "Killer" Kahn,<ref name="moscow concert">{{cite news |last1=Simons |first1=Jamie |last2=Lapidese |first2=Jon |title=Rock in a Hard Place |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1987-07-05/magazine/tm-2027_1_rock-concert |access-date=June 26, 2016 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 5, 1987}}</ref> and Graham's girlfriend, Melissa Gold (née Dilworth), ex-wife of author [[Herbert Gold]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 28, 1991 |title=Melissa Gold, 47, Aide For California Causes |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/28/obituaries/melissa-gold-47-aide-for-california-causes.html |access-date=April 19, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>