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American Beauty is the fifth studio album (and sixth overall) by American rock band the Grateful Dead.Released in November 1970, by Warner Bros. Records, the album continued the folk rock and country music style of their previous album Workingman's Dead, released earlier in the year.
Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, and Bill Pullman. It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling. Its title is taken from a Grateful Dead song written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter from their 1970 album American Beauty.
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics in 1970 in London on the same afternoon he wrote those to "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" (reputedly drinking half a bottle of retsina in the process). [3] Jerry Garcia wrote the music to accompany Hunter's lyrics, [ 3 ] and the song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco.
In the liner notes for the show on 5/11/72 Blair Jackson starts by declaring "All you really need to know about this Rotterdam concert is that it was former Grateful Dead vault-keeper Dick Latvala's favorite show from the Europe '72 tour." After describing the venue, which is "a beautiful, modern symphony hall (built in 1966) that holds 2,200 ...
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings was the second Grateful Dead album to contain an entire "run" of concerts. ... "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12
It was the Grateful Dead's second Grammy, following their 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. [5] [6] ... "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) September 20, 1982.
Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.Packaged as a box set, it contains seven complete concerts on 20 CDs. The concerts were performed in St. Louis, Missouri in December 1971, October 1972, and October 1973.
Brust has said that the story is inspired by the song "Brokedown Palace" by the band the Grateful Dead. This is acknowledged in the Orb edition, with the first names of the band members being listed on the dedication page, and the acknowledgments page including mention of the person who "started the whole thing by playing the song so ...