Click the slide that you want to add a background color to. To select multiple slides, click a slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides. On the Design tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and then click Format Background. Click Fill, and then click Solid Fill.
(Originally published by the Daily News on August 10, 1995. Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia, a rock ânâ roll guru whose counter-culture appeal crossed generations and outlasted fads, died yesterday at a drug and alcohol treatment center near San Francisco, where the band began 30 years ago.
Ebet RobertsâRedferns/Getty Images Jerry Garcia performing with the Grateful Dead at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on June 19, 1995. It was exactly 20 years ago this weekend, on Aug. 9, 1995, that Jerry Garcia died at 53, abruptly ending the Grateful Deadâs 30 year run as the worldâs foremost jam band.