Grateful Dead: World at Their Command

by Paul Grushkin (Editor)

Grateful World at Their Command is a travelogue scrapbook chronicling the band’s numerous forays outside the United States. Following the band’s Europe ’72 tour, which yielded the platinum-selling three-album set Europe ’72 and proved that the Dead had an international following, the Dead repeatedly toured throughout Europe, Egypt, and the Caribbean until 1990, bringing their music to the world and developing a truly global audience.

Many of these concerts were exceptionally memorable, imbuing their venues with Dead lore and providing rare keepsakes and ephemera. The collectible artwork, photographs, posters, handbills, tickets, advertisements, and memorabilia?along with on-the-spot tales, reminiscences, and concert reviews?form the basis of this commemorative compendium. Full of the minutiae Deadheads thoroughly enjoy and collect, Grateful World at Their Command is the first book to chronicle the band’s overseas adventures in full.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 9, 2012

About the author

Paul Grushkin is the author and co-author of four best-selling rock & roll histories, collectively selling over one million copies.