Aug 09, 2023 at 10:39 PM Update: an hour ago
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Robbie Robertson passed away on Wednesday at the age of eighty. The Canadian was best known as a member of the group The Band and as the creator of several Martin Scorsese movie soundtracks.
The musician began his career in the late 1950s with the backing band of rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. The Band was created in the mid-1960s, which was initially intended as a backing band for Bob Dylan.
But The Band grew into much more than a backing band, with songs like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down in The Weight. The latter number has been in the Top 2000 of NPO Radio 2 every year so far.
In 1976 The Band parted ways with The Last Waltz, a grand concert that was turned into an album and a movie. The show featured many celebrity guest appearances. The film of the farewell concert was directed by Scorsese.
Robertson also had modest success solo: in 1988 Somewhere Down the Crazy River a top 10 hit in the Netherlands.
Robertson worked more often with Scorsese after the end of The Band. He made the soundtrack for several movies, such as Gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street in The Irishman. Killers of the Flower Moonwhich came out earlier this year, was the last film Robertson did the soundtrack for.
Robertson died in Los Angeles on Wednesday, his management reports to American media.
2023-08-09 20:39:38
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