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 ...
Godchaux-MacKay also performed with Elvis Presley, Percy Sledge, and Cher. Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a famed Grateful Dead singer, has died at 78. Her career included work with Elvis Presley, The ...
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 ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame backup singer for The Grateful Dead in the 1970s who also sang on No. 1 hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, did Muscle Shoals sessions and ...
The Grateful Dead were not, by most people's definition, a band fit for the studio. To condense their songwriting and penchant for free flowing jams into the sort of sterile, structured environment ...
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 ...
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 ...
The University of Oregon's Autzen Stadium will have a Grateful Dead theme for the October 25th football game against Wisconsin, celebrating the band's 60th anniversary. The Duck Store has partnered ...
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 ...
When the Grateful Dead started back in 1965 as the Warlocks, they were just another Bay Area band riding the wave of the psychedelic scene. But 60 years later, their legacy is still going strong. They ...