From the archive, 10 August 1995: Jerry Garcia dies in clinic

Leader of the Grateful Dead passes away of natural causes in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centreJerry Garcia, leader of The Grateful Dead, the ultimate San Francisco hippie band, was found dead yesterday in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre.The whiskery 53-year-old guitarist, who had a central place in the Haight Ashbury counter-culture of the 1960s, had suffered from diabetes for the past nine years.Four years ago he stopped smoking, added a fitness trainer to the Dead's road crew a...

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