Robbie Robertson of rock group ‘The Band’, dies at 80 FMTNews FMTLifestyle
Robbie Robertson was the guitarist and main songwriter of Canadian-American group called ‘The Band’.
After changing their name to The Band and rebasing in Woodstock, New York, they became one of the most respected groups in rock. Their 1976 farewell concert in San Francisco was the basis of Martin Scorsese’s 1978 movie “The Last Waltz.” “The impact of The Band’s first album can’t be exaggerated,” critic Greil Marcus wrote in 2000, referring to their 1968 debut album, “Music from Big Pink.” It contained “The Weight” and Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released,” among others.
As a boy, Robertson was impressed by his visits with relatives on the Six Nations Indian Reserve in southwestern Ontario. It struck him that “everybody there could play or sing or dance or do something with music,” he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Metro Morning” in 2017. After soaring to the highest heights on their first two albums, The Band continued to produce good work in the 1970s but a certain lethargy and lack of direction set in, not helped by the substance abuse problems of Danko, Helm and Manuel.
Helm painted a scathing picture of Robertson in his 1993 autobiography. Robertson reacted more in sorrow than anger, often saying in interviews that Helm, in the early days, was “the closest thing I had to a brother.”
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