Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a longtime Bay Area singer who performed with the Grateful Dead in 1970s and also appeared on a number of hit records in the ’60s, has died at the age of 78. The vocalist — ...
The singer died of cancer on Nov. 2 in Nashville Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a famed Grateful Dead singer, has died at 78. Her career included work with Elvis Presley, The Grateful Dead, Cher, and Percy Sledge. “May the four winds blow her safely ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a vocalist for the Grateful Dead during the 1970s and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, has died at the age of 78. Godchaux-MacKay passed away on Sunday ...
She helped shape the band’s sound in the 1970s, a decade that took the band to new heights. By Sopan Deb Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a singer who performed on hits such as “When a Man Loves a Woman” ...
As we continue to reflect on the 60 years since the formation of the Grateful Dead, we present this feature which originally appeared in the special programs we created for Fare Thee Well at Soldier ...
For decades, Grateful Dead fans have proudly donned their reds and blues. The hues, part of the band’s lightning skull logo, have bedecked vans, tie-dye shirts, and tattoos as Deadheads trailed the ...
Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah returns to the charts with a deluxe fiftieth anniversary reissue, surging 401,000% in sales and landing multiple top 10 debuts. Members of the rock group Grateful Dead ...
Bob Dylan once said Jerry Garcia had no equal. Yet the music icon, still worshiped decades after his death, was intimidated by one artist. Jim Marshall, the legendary photographer behind some of music ...
During Jerry Garcia’s lifetime, the Grateful Dead played about 2,300 concerts, so what better way to celebrate the band’s 60 th anniversary than focusing on their greatest live shows? Whittling that ...
A fan died while dancing in the crowd at Grateful Dead offshoot band Dead & Company’s concert at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park over the weekend, reports say. Family members identified the man in a ...
Grateful Dead photographed in NYC, June, 1967. Publicity photo from the exhibition and coffee table book: An American beauty - Grateful Dead 1965-1995. What is it about the Grateful Dead that had tens ...