Canadian Robbie Robertson, The Band s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" mined and helped reshape music, has died at 80.
Canadian Robbie Robertson, The Band s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" mined and helped reshape music, has died at 80.
Robertson organized an all-star gathering at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom; it was filmed by Martin Scorsese and was the basis for the celebrated 1978 documentary “The Last Waltz.”