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The story of Bobby and the Helmets goes like this: a British rock band called The Liverpool Scene formed in 1967 when a couple poets got together to make music. Despite the lukewarm reception of all three of their album releases, the Liverpool Scene landed a spot opening for Led Zeppelin in 1969 and performed their song “The Woo-Woo,” a quirky narrative about a fictitious band named Bobby and the Helmets who was killed along with 234 other people in a tragic ice cream flood. Robert Plant was so impressed by the band and the song, he sported a super tight Bobby and the Helmets t-shirt on stage in tribute. Snapped for posterity by the prolific Joe Sia, the photo breathes a little life into the forgotten Liverpool Scene and their fictitious band Bobby and the Helmets.
Bill Graham was given, and later commissioned, countless photographs of events that he personally promoted from the 1960s onward. The archive includes black-and-white Summer of Love scenes, Lollapalooza in loud living color and much, much more. Browse the Bill Graham photography archive.