The Grateful Dead

Dead & Company, featuring Grateful Dead surviving members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, begins its North American tour on May 30.

Wavy Gravy, the original and unofficial king of 1960s counterculture, leads Newsweek on a meandering trip through his life with Jerry and the Dead.

In the early 1990s, as 1960s rockers began to age, Newsweek asked whether or not people still wanted to be like their rock idols.

Jerry Garcia was one of the most talented guitarists of the 20th century. But he was also one of its most prolific collaborators. Here are a few of his finest pairings.

The 'Fare Thee Well' concerts mark both the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead and their final performance together.

Immediately after Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, "Newsweek" wondered whether the band could survive without its intrepid leader.

The Grateful Dead’s poster art produced some of the decade’s essential icons.

Together, this pack of unconventional misfits formed the greatest improvisational band in American history.

In the wave of Grateful Dead publicity that followed Jerry Garcia’s death, Newsweek offered novices a definitive starter list.