Jerilyn Lee Brandelius (June 25, 1948 – August 31, 2020) was an American writer and photographer and was known as the author of '' The Grateful Dead Family Album''.

Early life

Brandelius was born in

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to Dorothy Anne Reid, a homemaker, and Edwin Carl "Brandy" Brandelius II, a

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(Ancestry.com). She was the first of five children. Early on, her parents moved to

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to help with her great-grandmother toward the end of her life. Brandelius father Edwin "Brandy" is from the first marriage of his fathter Edwin Carl Brandelius (Ancestry.com) who immigrated from Sweden. Her father's second marriage was to singer and environmental activist Katie Lee.

Career

In 1968, Brandelius began working for Translove Airways Productions at the Hippodrome Ballroom in

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which led to her meeting members of the Grateful Dead,

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, and more. She had a relationship with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. In 1969, Brandelius moved to

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, met music promoter and cultural icon

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(founder of the

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and father of San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love). Brandelius worked for him

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as a personal assistant until it closed, at which point Brandelius went to work for Pete Marino (close friend of

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) at

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as a production assistant. Brandelius' photographic archive includes rare images from the Grateful Dead's 1978 tour to

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. In 1989, Brandelius published the book '' The Grateful Dead Family Album'' with cover art by

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. The book was originally signed to a small publisher but re-signed and pushed into full production with

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following Jerry Garcia's hospitalization and near fatal diabetic coma in 1986.

Television and documentary

Brandelius appears in the 1995 documentary ''Tie-Died'' which offers a look at the band and the fans known as "

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s". Brandelius appears in ''

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'', a television documentary series aired on

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, in a 2007 episode titled "Summer of Love".

References

External links

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egyptpage.htm
article written by Mickey Hart regarding Egypt tour
Movie Reviews
New York Times overview of movie Tie-Died {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandelius, Jerilyn 1948 births 2020 deaths American photojournalists American non-fiction writers Writers from San Francisco Artists from San Francisco American women photographers American women journalists 21st-century American women Women photojournalists

Early life

Career

Television and documentary

References

Further reading

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