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Drowned in drink and lost in legend: The forgotten genius of The Band’s Richard Manuel

INTERVIEW: It’s hard to overstate the influence that The Band had on music, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton to The Beatles and Elton John. Less talked about is the influence that singer-songwriter Richard Manuel had on The Band. Jim Farber speaks to the late musician’s contemporaries, and…

The Independent UK

"Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters

For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio

Louder

Garth Hudson, one of the men who helped Bob Dylan go electric, has died

Keyboard player Garth Hudson, who also played with Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Roger Waters and more, has died aged 87

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Garth Hudson obituary

Innovative organist with the Band, the rock group who changed the way their contemporaries thought about music

The Guardian - UK

Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician, has died at age 87

The Independent UK

Last original member of The Band Garth Hudson dies aged 87

He was praised as a ‘musical genius and cornerstone of the group’s timeless sound’.

Evening Standard

Garth Hudson death: Last remaining member of The Band dies aged 87

Hudson was a talented multi-instrumentalist best known for playing keyboards and saxophone for The Band

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Bob Dylan was washed up and irrelevant – then one electrifying tour saved his career

Bob Dylan was teetering on Insignificance when he finally returned to the road in 1974 with The Band, who were in the throes of their own turmoil at the time. That tour saved both their careers, writes Stevie Chick, and cemented the Tambourine Man’s place in music history

The Independent UK

"My dream was a place where we could create and make music and take magic out of the air": Remembering Robbie Robertson, architect of The Band

Robbie Robertson was behind two world-changing musical revolutions; a Canadian songwriter and lead guitarist whose group The Band gave birth to Americana

Louder

"The return of the single most important figure in rock music since Elvis": Before The Flood - Bob Dylan's nostalgia trip that became the future

Before The Flood - Dylan's comeback that became the blueprint for the heritage act

MusicRadar

“My God, it’s hard to get in tune when they’re booing": when Bob Dylan faced down his detractors with a Strat and made rock n' roll history

In 1965, Bob Dylan strapped on a Stratocaster, then a Telecaster, and ushered in a bold new folk-rock sound. But he'd actually gone electric six months earlier…

MusicRadar

"I've seen them and loved every over-the-top minute of it... but this album just doesn’t cut it": Alive II by Kiss - Album Of The Week Club review

One thing we can all agree on, surely: that inner gatefold is one of the great photographs in rock'n'roll

Louder

A flop at first, ‘The Right Stuff’ ascends to the level of a classic

The great space epic, which turns 40 this month, still thrills with its expert casting and dazzling visuals.

Chicago Sun-Times

Robbie Robertson's hidden heritage power

The musician's mother told him, "Be proud that you're an Indian, but be careful who you tell"

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The Guardian - UK

Robbie Robertson obituary

Driving force of the Band, whose influential first album, Music from Big Pink, sent US rock music in new directions

Guitar World

“Playing with Bob Dylan was like entering The Twilight Zone of music. You thought, ‘They’re going to wake me up tomorrow because all of this is impossible’”: Robbie Robertson reflects on his remarkable career and the end of the Band

In his final Guitar World interview, the late guitar legend shares his earliest guitar influences, what it was like to get booed onstage with Dylan and why the Band’s final days were so heartbreaking

The Guardian - AU

Robbie Robertson’s 10 best recordings – from Bob Dylan to the Band

The heart of the Band, an integral player in Dylan’s rise, and a stunning solo artist, the Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist has died aged 80

The Guardian - AU

The Band’s Robbie Robertson captured a dream of what America was, is and might be

The bandleader who didn’t front his band, who was never as celebrated as Bob Dylan or their peers, was the glue keeping the Band together

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The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson dies, aged 80

Best known for his work with the Band, Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, Robertson passed away after a long illness

Guitar World

Robbie Robertson, guitarist for Bob Dylan, the Band, dies at 80

The famed guitarist had recently completed work on the score for the upcoming Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon

Louder

"I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion" - Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

Louder

Kansas: Point of Know Return - Album Of The Week Club review

Kansas's follow-up to the massively successful Leftoverture was Point Of Know Return, a slice of intuitively melodic rock that spawned a huge hit single, the emotive Dust In The Wind

Tribune News Service

Rock ‘n’ roll never forgives: New book details backstage battles between music’s biggest bands

“You Started It: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds” by Ken McNab; Backbeat (279 pages, $24.95)

Bangkok Post

House of the rising Son

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

Tribune News Service

The ageless Ringo Starr reflects on what keeps him going

PITTSBURGH — Strange to think about it now, but when Ringo Starr launched Ringo and His All-Starr Band in 1989, he hadn’t been a touring musician since 1966.

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