Thirty-five years later, is the Grateful Dead's only Top 10 hit the worst thing that ever happened to the band—or the song that saved it?
For all their rambling and rocking, the strangest milieu in which the Grateful Dead ever found themselves may have been near the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The week of September 26, 1987, their song "Touch of Grey" released that July and in heavy radio rotation all summer, peaked at No. 9, keeping unlikely company with the likes of Whitney Houston, Whitesnake, and the dance-pop atrocity Bananarama. Even now, 35 years on, it seems odd. This, after all, was a band singularly famous for eschewing the conventions of the music business; for whom touring was the primary point, not a means to promote the studio records they came to regard as little more than raw meat tossed to distract the industry crocodiles. |
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