The band

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The Band's drummer and vocalist, who died Thursday, made the complex seem effortless.

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The Quarrymen are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which eventually evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several school friends, the Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School, which they attended. Lennon started a skiffle group that was very briefly called the Blackjacks, but changed the name before any public performances. Some accounts credit Lennon with choosing the…

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Siguiendo con el anterior post en el que hablo del segundo disco de The Band y en el que hago especial mención a una canción, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, os dejo con unos covers que he encontrado además de la versión original de The Band para que podáis disfrutar de esta maravilla de canción. Una de las mejores del rock, sin duda.

As chief lyricist for The Band, Robbie Robertson wrote with aching familiarity about mourning a war-torn Tennessee home (“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”), gambling on the Louisiana bayou (“Up on Cripple Creek”) and feeling “half-past dead” in Nazareth, Pa. (“The Weight”). The irony of these contributions to the genre now known as Americana: Robertson was Canadian.

AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young's funeral will coincide with the biggest day on the Australian music calendar.

Photographer Ernst Haas captured The Band and Bob Dylan in the final week of 1971 as they performed together in New York City.