Much has been made of Manuel’s March 1986 suicide at age 42. By that point, The Band was playing two-bit theatres and dance halls — a far cry from their stature more than a decade earlier — and Manuel ...

This past Thursday marked the 82nd anniversary of Richard Manuel’s birth. The musician, who passed away in 1986 at age 42 is renowned for his work as a singer, songwriter and keyboard player. He was ...

In order to more fully appreciate the 50th anniversary edition of the Band's third studio album, Stage Fright (Capitol, 1970), it is best to resist the temptation to go off on tangents regarding the ...

As a passionate fan of the Band, Stephen T. Lewis had watched the concert film “The Last Waltz” numerous times and devoured autobiographies on Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson, the Band’s best-known ...

The Band famously concluded the first act of their unparalleled story with "The Last Waltz," their much-heralded swan song at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day in 1976. By that ...