Bob Dylan has paid tribute to his \u0022lifelong friend\u0022 Robbie Robertson following his death at the age of 80.
in a statement: “This is shocking news. Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.”Photo by file photomagazine have re-shared a 2017 interview with Robbie, in which he spoke of how proud he was to have been with Bob when he defied fans’ response to his new direction.
He said: “ got booed all over North America, Australia, Europe, and people were saying this isn’t working and we kept on and Bob didn’t budge.Article content “We got to a place where we would listen to these tapes and say, ‘You know what? They’re wrong. And we’re right.’ “Eight years later, we do a tour, the Dylan/Band tour. We play the same way, same intensity and everybody says, ‘Wow, that was amazing.’Along with writing The Band’s most iconic hits including, the guitar icon recorded a string of solo albums, wrote children’s books and worked with Martin Scorsese scoring more than a dozen of his films.Robbie’s manager of 34 years, Jared Levine, announced his death in a statement earlier this week.
He said: “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife, Dominique, her partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra, Sebastian, Delphine and Delphine’s partner Kenny.Instead of flowers, the guitarist’s family asked fans to make any donations they wished to the Six Nations of the Grand River to “support a new Woodland Cultural Center.”
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