The Chet Helms died at the age of 62. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
San Francisco rock promoter who helped organized the 1967 Summer of Love.
He was born in Santa Maria, California as the eldest of three sons of Novella and Chester Helms, who both died when Chet was nine.
Chet Helms, known as the father of the Summer of Love and the rock promoter who brought Janis Joplin to San Francisco, died here on Saturday. He was 62. The cause was complications of a stroke, his family said.