One of rock's greatest songwriters and musicians, Robbie Robertson, has died at 80.
Hillel Italie, AP National WriterRobbie Robertson, The Band's Canada-born lead guitarist and songwriter who mined and helped remake Americana, dies at 80.
They remain defined by their first two albums, "Music from Big Pink" and "The Band," both released in the late 1960s. The rock scene was turning away from the psychedelic extravagances of the Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and a wave of sound effects, long jams and lysergic lyrics. "Music from Big Pink," named for the old house near Woodstock, New York, where Band members lived and gathered, was for many the sound of coming home.
The Band played at the 1969 Woodstock festival, not far from where they lived, and became newsworthy enough to appear on the cover of Time magazine. But the spirit behind their best work was already dissolving. Albums such as "Stage Fright" and "Cahoots" were disappointing even for Robertson, who would acknowledge that he was struggling to find fresh ideas.
The Band regrouped without Robertson in the early 1980s, and Robertson went on to a long career as a solo artist and soundtrack composer. His self-titled 1987 album was certified gold and featured the hit single "Show Down at Big Sky" and the ballad "Fallen Angel," a tribute to Manuel, who was found dead in 1986 in what was ruled a suicide .
Jaime Royal Robertson was born in Toronto and spent summers at the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve where his mother Rosemarie Dolly Chrysler grew up. He never met his father, Alexander David Klegerman, who died before he was born and whose existence Robertson only learned of years later. His mother had since married a factory worker, James Robertson, whom Robbie Robertson at first believed was his biological parent.
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