Grateful Dead’s “Sugar Magnolia” Featured On ‘Europe ’72’ Performed In Paris On This Day in 1972

The Grateful Dead‘s spring 1972 tour of Europe has since become the stuff of legend within the band’s 30-year history. Recordings captured throughout the international run of shows that spring ultimately ended up on the band’s double live LP, Europe ’72, an album considered by many Dead fans as a perfect snapshot of the “Primal-Dead” era.

One of the tracks featured on the album includes a wonderful rendition of “Sugar Magnolia” with Bob Weir leading the charge on the lively Dead original. It was on this day, 47 years ago, that the band performed that captured version of “Sugar Magnolia” during a show at the Olympia Theater in Paris, France.

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The band had just released their official studio version of the Bob Weir and Robert Hunter-penned tune almost two years earlier with its inclusion on 1970’s American Beauty. Fans can relive the band’s excellent-sounding performance from Paris that night in the audio-only video below.

Grateful Dead – “Sugar Magnolia” – 5/4/1972

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