'''Jerome John Garcia''' (født 1. august 1942, død 9. august 1995)<ref name=dofnic>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7EZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4278%2C2058366 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |last=Keefer |first=Bob |title=Death of an icon |date=10. august 1995 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=gdgjgc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4mJWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2fEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2309%2C6084275 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=wire reports |title=Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia dies at 53 |date=10. august 1995 |page=A1}}</ref><ref name=lstrpbn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HbVeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KDAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2239%2C2057321 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |last=Locke |first=Michelle |title=His long strange trip comes to a close |date=10. august 1995 |page=1A}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/10/obituaries/jerry-garcia-of-grateful-dead-icon-of-60-s-spirit-dies-at-53.html |title=Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead, Icon of 60's Spirit, Dies at 53|author=Jon Pareles|date=10. august 1995|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=A1}}</ref> var en amerikansk musiker, som er bedst kendt for at være [[sangskriver]] og [[leadguitarist]] i rockbandet [[Grateful Dead]], som han var med til at starte og som opnåede berømmelse under [[Ungdomsoprøret i Danmark|ungdomsoprøret]] i 1960'erne.<ref>{{harvnb|The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica|2019}}: "Jerome John Garcia, ("JERRY"), U.S. musician (born Aug. 1, 1942, San Francisco, Calif.—died Aug. 9, 1995, Forest Knolls, Calif.), personified the hippie counterculture for three decades as the mellow leader of the rock band the Grateful Dead. Garcia was the singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist of the San Francisco-based group that emerged from the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic-drug-and-music scene in the mid-1960s."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Ruhlmann|n.d.e}}: "Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jerry Garcia was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, the rock band for which he served as de facto leader for 30 years, from 1965 until his death in 1995. [...] In addition to his musical efforts, Garcia was viewed as an icon and spokesman for the hippie movement of the 1960s, the counterculture fueled by psychedelic drugs and rock & roll that the Grateful Dead embodied for their fervent fans, the Deadheads, as well as to the public at large."</ref> Selv om han ikke brød sig om den rolle, anså mange Garcia for at være gruppens frontfigur.<ref name="The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 2019">{{harvnb|The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica|2019}}</ref><ref name="harvnb|Ruhlmann|n.d.e">{{harvnb|Ruhlmann|n.d.e}}</ref><ref name="rockandroll">{{cite web| url=http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/grateful-dead| title=The Grateful Dead| access-date=25. april 2007| publisher= The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.| year=1994|work=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees}}</ref> Han blev optaget i [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] i 1994 som medlem af Grateful Dead.
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