This day in music history.

October 25, 1991, At the age of 60, concert promoter Bill Graham dies in a helicopter crash. He was flying home after a Huey Lewis concert in Concord, Calif. Among the events produced by Graham were the Live Aid concert, Amnesty International tour and US Festival. At times he managed the careers of the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and Santana. Born Wolfgang Grajonca, a Jew in Germany in 1931 and orphaned soon after. He was evacuated to France in 1939 and sent to the U.S. in 1941. He lived with a foster family in the Bronx, working as a waiter and cabbie until he found his calling as a rock impresario. Graham was a transcendent figure in the rock business and in the popular culture of his time.