Robbie Robertson didn't intend to write about Richard Manuel. It happened anyway on the moving "Fallen Angel".
When The Band filmed their final live performance for the classic concert film The Last Waltz in 1976, they meant to sum up a career so consequential that it altered the course of rock history. Yet, ...
The Band famously concluded the first act of their unparalleled story with "The Last Waltz," their much-heralded swan song at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day in 1976. By that ...
As a passionate fan of the Band, Stephen T. Lewis had watched the concert film “The Last Waltz” numerous times and devoured autobiographies on Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson, the Band’s best-known ...
The Band helped reshape rock with 1968's rootsy 'Music From Big Pink' – and the late Richard Manuel played a key role. Robertson, Helm and Hudson backed bluesman John Hammond on 1965's 'So Many Roads, ...