Paul McCartney once claimed that The Grateful Dead inspired him to break a 10-year hiatus and go on a massive world tour.

Here's a look behind just four songs Phil Lesh co-wrote for the Grateful Dead from the late '60s through the early 1970s.

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at the age of 84. He "passed peacefully" while ...

You can't tell the story about the history of San Francisco without mentioning the counterculture movement, and you can't ...

As Raitt recalls, “Justin said, ‘I’m working with this artist you may or may not know,’” and that said artist, as Raitt remembers him saying, “had written a song about being cognizant of maybe running ...

Phil Lesh, a formally trained musician who cheerfully took a zigzag approach to his role as the Grateful Dead’s first and only bass player for three decades, died Friday at the age of 84, his family ...

From shapeshifting suite “That’s It for the Other One” to the album’s avant–boogie-rock coda “Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco ...

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died surrounded by his family, a post on his Instagram said.

Phil Lesh, a classically trained musician who found his true calling as a rock bass guitarist and founding member of the ...

We request that you respect the Lesh family's privacy at this time." The Grateful Dead on stage in 1989 He was best known for the song Unbroken Chain, about the counterculture band’s connection ...

The Grateful Dead, from left, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart perform during a reunion concert in East Troy, Wis. on Aug. 3, 2002. Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead ...