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Rare Bob Dylan Draft Lyrics Found Stuck in a Friend's Book

Typewritten version of 'I'm Not There' was in an Allen Ginsberg book owned by his manager's wife

(Newser) - A long-forgotten scrap of Bob Dylan history just fell out of a beat poet's book. A torn, lined sheet bearing a working draft of Dylan's song "I'm Not There" has been found tucked inside a first-edition copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Angkor Wat," auction...

Last Surviving Member of the Band Is Dead at 87
Last Surviving Member
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Jan 21, 2025 12:16 PM CST

Last Surviving Member of the Band Is Dead at 87

Garth Hudson was a master instrumentalist

(Newser) - Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician, has died at age 87, per the AP . Hudson drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as "Up on Cripple Creek," "The Weight," and "...

Robbie Robertson Sought to Write Songs 'Lost in Time'

Lead guitarist for the Band also collaborated with Martin Scorsese

(Newser) - Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter for the Band—a Canadian American group that famously backed Bob Dylan while achieving Rock and Roll Hall of Fame success in its own right—died Wednesday. Robertson, 80, died in Los Angeles after a long illness, CBC News reports. He wrote or co-wrote...

5 Concert Tours That Went Tragically Wrong

All of them ended with a band member's death

(Newser) - A couple canceled shows are nothing compared to the tragedies that befell these concert tours rounded up by Listverse . A sampling:
  • Blind Melon: Frontman Shannon Hoon checked into rehab for drugs after the band's second album was recorded, and doctors warned he wasn't ready to tour. But the
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Rock Legend Levon Helm of The Band Dead at 71

He sang and played drums for the group

(Newser) - With songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek," The Band fused rock, blues, folk, and gospel to create a sound that seemed as authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story....

Band Drummer Levon Helm Near Death

Acclaimed singer, multi-instrumentalist in final stages of cancer

(Newser) - Rock and roll is about to lose another legend. Levon Helm, drummer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist in The Band, is "in the final stages of his battle with cancer," according to a note posted to his website by family members. The 71-year-old musician from Arkansas was the only non-Canadian...

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