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The musician was a lifelong collaborator of Martin Scorsese’s, working on more than a dozen of the auteur’s projects, including the forthcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and main songwriter in The Band, the Canadian-American group known for songs including The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, has died at the age of 80. Robertson, who left his Toronto home at 16 to pursue his rock’n’roll dreams, passed away after a long illness, his manager […]
After years of collaborating with the guitarist on the soundtracks to his biggest movies, Martin Scorsese has hailed Robbie Robertson as a music “giant”.
The musician, who was a guitarist and songwriter for the Canadian-American group The Band, sadly passed away on Wednesday, August 9 after a long illness.
Robbie Robertson died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a long illness. He led the Canadian-American group The Band to major rock success in the 1960s and 1970s. He also collaborated with Bob Dylan and wrote the music for many films. Robertson was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in 1994. The Band is considered one of rock's true greats and Robertson was behind many of the band's classic hits, such as "The shape I'm in" and "The night they drove Old Dixie down"