“This says Grateful Dead all over it — we have to use this.” - Stanley Mouse On this day in 1966, the Dead began a two night run at the Avalon Ballroom. The iconic poster, designed by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse for the show, features an adaptation of Edmund J. Sullivan’s illustration of a skeleton surrounded by roses that the two discovered in a book of poems called ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.’ The image of the skull and roses would be included on the Dead’s 1971 release ‘Grateful Dead,’ often referred to as ‘Skull & Roses.’
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