Wolfgang Grajonca

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Wolfgang Grajonca, better known as Bill Graham, was a legendary rock concert promoter and music industry figure who helped shape the modern live music business in the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American Jew
German emigrant to the United States
Holocaust survivor
concert promoter
human
music industry executive
rock music promoter
activeYearsEnd 1991
activeYearsStart 1960s
alsoKnownAs Bill Graham
birthName Wolfgang Grajonca self-link
burialPlace Eternal Home Cemetery, Colma, California
surface form: Eternal Home Cemetery, Colma, California, United States
causeOfDeath helicopter crash
childhoodExperience escaped Nazi Germany as a child refugee
countryOfBirth Germany
dateOfBirth 1931-01-08
dateOfDeath 1991-10-25
emigratedTo United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicity Jewish
familyName Grajonca
founded Bill Graham Presents
genre rock music
givenName Wolfgang
honor inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (non-performer category)
posthumous recognition as a pioneering concert promoter
knownFor Fillmore Auditorium
Fillmore East
Fillmore West
nationality American
German
notableFor promoting rock concerts in the 1960s and 1970s
shaping the modern live music business in the United States
occupation concert promoter
impresario
music industry executive
organized large-scale benefit concerts
rock concerts at the Fillmore venues
placeOfBirth Berlin
surface form: Berlin, Germany
placeOfDeath Vallejo
surface form: Vallejo, California, United States
religion Judaism
residence New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States

San Francisco
surface form: San Francisco, California, United States
workedWith Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane
Santana (band)
surface form: Santana

The Rolling Stones

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Bill Graham alsoKnownAs Wolfgang Grajonca
Wolfgang Grajonca birthName Wolfgang Grajonca self-link