Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter dies at 78

Robert Hunter was a poet and musician who wrote many of the Grateful Dead’s lyrics, has released a couple of solo albums in the mid-’70s and co-wrote two songs for Bob Dylan. In the early 1960s, Hunter met and befriended Jerry Garcia, Hunter composed his first lyrics for the Grateful Dead on acid when he was living in Arizona. After battling drug addiction, he returned to California in 1967, where he quickly became an official non-performing member of the band and their principal lyricist, Rolling Stone remembers.