Amidst news of the band's reformation, a look at their history on the Billboard charts.
It's been a long, strange trip for the Grateful Dead on the Billboard charts, dating back to 1968 when the first of their 45 albums hit the Billboard 200.
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After several psychedelic albums, the San Francisco-based band made a left turn toward country-rock. The Dead's back-to-back albums Workingman's Dead (1970) and American Beauty (1971) produced their first radio hits -- "Uncle John's Band" (No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100) from the former and the band's best-known song, "Truckin'," (No. 64) and "Sugar Magnolia" (No. 91), from the latter.