Editing Chet Helms (section)

{{short description|American music promoter (1942-2005)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               =  Chet Helms
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| birth_name = Chester Leo Helms
| birth_date         =  {{birth date|1942|08|02}}
| birth_place        = [[Santa Maria, California]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2005|06|25|1942|08|2}}
| death_place        = [[San Francisco, California]], U.S.
| occupation         = Music promoter
| known_for          = Often called the father of the "[[Summer of Love]]"
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'''Chester Leo''' "'''Chet'''" '''Helms''' (August 2, 1942 – June 25, 2005), often called the father of [[San Francisco]]'s 1967 "[[Summer of Love]]," was a [[music promoter]] and a [[counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]] figure in San Francisco during its [[hippie]] period in the mid- to-late 1960s.

Helms was the founder and manager of [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]] and recruited [[Janis Joplin]] as its lead singer. He was a producer and organizer, helping to stage free concerts and other cultural events at [[Golden Gate Park]], the backdrop of San Francisco's [[Summer of Love]] in 1967, as well as at other venues, including the [[Avalon Ballroom]].

He was the first producer of [[Psychedelia|psychedelic]] light-show concerts at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom and was instrumental in helping to develop bands that had the distinctive [[San Francisco Sound]].<ref>{{cite web
| date = June 27, 2005
| url = http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/62459/joplin-manager-chet-helms-dies
| title = Joplin Manager Chet Helms Dies
| publisher = Billboard
| access-date = 2006-05-20
}}</ref> Helms died June 25, 2005, of complications of a [[stroke]]. He was 62.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chet Helms Dies at 62; Father of San Francisco's Summer of Love |work=The New York Times |date=June 28, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/arts/music/chet-helms-dies-at-62-father-of-san-franciscos-summer-of-love.html |access-date=31 December 2021}}</ref>