'A large amount of weirdness': The long, strange success of the Grateful Dead
- Posted on December 1, 2025
- By BBC News
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'A large amount of weirdness': The long, strange success of the Grateful Dead

The band performed their first concert on 4 December 1965. In 1981, their leader Jerry Garcia talked to the BBC about how they became superstars but "never sold out".