2023-08-10 00:52:08
He was The Band founder, guitarist and songwriter. Now Robbie Robertson died at the age of 80.
The musician succumbed to his long illness on Wednesday and died in Los Angeles surrounded by his family, his manager explains according to US media reports.
According to Jared Levine, the Canadian-born recently collaborated with director Martin Scorsese on the soundtrack for his new film Killers of the Flower Moon.
Robbie Robertson performing with Elvis Costello in New Orleans
Photo: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
Robertson, son of a Mohican mother, had learned to play the guitar as a youth on the Six Nations reservation. The Band rose to fame as the backing group for Bob Dylan in the 1960s and later released albums of their own, including Music from Big Pink (1968) and The Last Waltz (1978).
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Robertson and his bandmates mixed blues with rock, folk and country. Songs like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “Up on Cripple Creek” were among their hits.
Two years later, Scorsese documented the group’s legendary final concert in San Francisco in 1976 in his concert film “The Last Waltz”. Robertson took part in numerous of the director’s projects, including films such as Raging Bull, Shutter Island and The Irishman.
In 2019, the documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band” about the life and work of the musician premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
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