really grateful.” The real Operation Mincemeat was a sleight-of-hand spy mission in 1943, in which the British dressed a dead body as a Royal Marines officer, outfitted it with fake invasion ...

In Johnny Cash’s song, he was a true hero. But in Grateful Dead’s song, he was a cocaine-addicted speed freak. By bringing Casey Jones into the 1970s, the Dead sought to use folk to give a ...

The Grateful Dead keeps on "truckin'" 60 years later – this time with a new year-round beer. Dogfish Head has released its new Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale nationwide to coincide with the ...

Grateful Dead founding member Bobby Weir is one of the last men standing in his legendary rock band. The thought of mortality has crossed Weir’s mind, as he’s seen many of his band members pass.

(Photo by Susana Millman) Expand Len Dell’Amico, the Grateful Dead’s longtime videographer, writes about his friendship with Jerry Garcia in a new memoir that portrays the charismatic ...

He was 84. Weir was famously the "little brother" of the Grateful Dead, as he joined the band at age 16. In 1963, he met Garcia in Palo Alto, California, in an alleyway, according to Rolling Stone.

To commemorate popular music‘s longest, strangest trip, there are the countless Dead reissues, boxed sets and fashion items. But Grateful Dead imagery — the Skulls & Roses, the Dancing Bears ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s. The photographer Herb Greene captured Jorma Kaukonen of ...

Dead & Company have unfinished business in Las Vegas. The band, led by Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, are about to start a second Dead Forever residency at ...

An aging star playing to massive crowds of supporters in head-to-toe merch? It’s not the Grateful Dead, it’s the Fighting Oligarchy tour. By Jacob Gallagher Jacob Gallagher covers men’s ...

And just like their decades of musical output, the Grateful Dead are unbeaten when it comes to merch. From the Stealie skull logo to Bertha to the dancing bears, the Grateful Dead have enough ...