BREAKING: Robbie Robertson, acclaimed guitarist and songwriter for ’70s rock group The Band, has died at age 80, his manager says.
Aug. 9, 2023, 8:18 PM UTCRobbie Robertson, a Canadian musician and songwriter who made his mark in the late 1960s and early '70s as the leader of the influential rock group The Band, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 80."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," Levine's statement said, in part.
Born Jaime Royal Robertson on July 5, 1943, he was one of the last two surviving members of The Band, an influential rock band that mixed folk, gospel and jazz with rhythm and blues and helped forge a distinctly American kind of roots rock sound. The other is keyboardist Garth Hudson. Robertson, Hudson, as well as bassist Rick Danko and pianist Richard Manuel, were all born in Canada.Danko died in 1999. Manuel died in 1986.
But it was Robertson's appearance in"The Last Waltz," a 1978 documentary about the group's farewell concert that was directed by Martin Scorsese, that made him a star. Robertson went on to produce scores and curated songs for Scorsese movies like"Raging Bull,""The Departed,""The Wolf of Wall Street" and"The Irishman."
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