Jerilyn Lee Brandelius (June 25, 1948 – August 31, 2020) [1][2][3] was an American writer and photographer and was known as the author of The Grateful Dead Family Album.
Early life
Brandelius was born in La Jolla, California, the eldest of five children born to Dorothy Anne Reid, a homemaker, and Edwin Carl "Brandy" Brandelius II, a US Marine.[2] Early on, her parents moved to Detroit. Brandelius' paternal grandfather immigrated from Sweden. Her father's second marriage was to singer and environmental activist Katie Lee.[citation needed]
In 1969, Brandelius moved to San Francisco, met music promoter and cultural icon Chet Helms (founder of the Avalon Ballroom and father of San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love). She worked for him as a personal assistant until she went to work for Pete Marino at WEA as a production assistant. Her photographic archive includes rare images from the Grateful Dead's 1978 tour to Egypt.[6]
Brandelius appeared in the 1995 documentary Tie-Died which offers a look at the band and the fans known as "Deadheads". She appeared in American Experience, a television documentary series aired on PBS, in a 2007 episode titled "Summer of Love".[8][unreliable source?]
