Grateful Dead Donate Archives to California University

The Grateful Dead's version of spring-cleaning will benefit the University of California Santa Cruz, as the college will now house the band's entire archives, including correspondence and memorabilia the Dead accrued while spending decades criss-crossing the world. The archives do not include the band's thousands and thousands of bootleg recordings. Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are expected to announce the partnership with the university today at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium.

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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