AP - Mar 12, 2007
Levon Helm, former drummer for The Band, is suing a Manhattan advertising firm over the use of the band s signature song, The Weight, in a television commercial. In a lawsuit filed in state Supreme...
More »USRN - Feb 13, 2002
(2/13/02, 12 p.m. ET) -- The film version of The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese s documentary of the Band s star-studded farewell concert, will turn 25 in style this year. United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment...
More »USRN - Dec 29, 2000
(12/29/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Today (December 29) marks what would have been singer, songwriter, and bassist Rick Danko s 58th birthday. Danko died last December 10, at the age of 56. Danko was one of the...
More »USRN - Dec 17, 1999
(12/17/99, 5 p.m. ET) - Between 300 and 500 people showed up Wednesday (Dec. 15) at the Bearsville Theatre near Woodstock, N.Y. for a public memorial service for Rick Danko of the Band. The memorial...
More »USRN - Dec 13, 1999
(12/13/99, 4 p.m. ET) - Former Band singer/guitarist Robbie Robertson, a longtime friend of bassist Rick Danko, has released a statement following Danko s death last week (LAUNCH, 12/10). I think Rick...
More »USRN - Dec 13, 1999
(12/13/99, 6 p.m. ET) - A public memorial for Rick Danko of the Band will be held Wednesday (Dec. 15) at the Bearsville Theatre, near Woodstock, N.Y. A spokesman for the Lasher Funeral Home in Woodstock...
More »USRN - Dec 13, 1999
(12/10/99, 2:30 p.m. ET) - Rick Danko, singer, songwriter and bassist for The Band, died early this morning at the age of 56, just weeks shy of his 57th birthday. The cause of death is not immediately...
More »USRN - Dec 10, 1999
(12/10/99, 7 p.m. ET) - Rick Danko - singer, songwriter, and bassist for The Band - died early this morning (Dec. 10), just weeks shy of his 57th birthday (LAUNCH, 12/10). According to Danko s family,...
More »USRN - Nov 22, 1999
(11/22/99, 4 p.m. ET) - Rick Danko of the Band released Live On Breeze Hill a few months ago, his first major solo album in several years. With the exception of one track, Sip The Wine, the entire album...
More »USRN - Nov 3, 1998
(11/3/98, 6 p.m. PST) - The controversial MP3 format for downloading music on the Internet has received some more support by some big-name artists, including--as your Psychic Friends probably already...
More »USRN - Mar 12, 1998
(3/12/98) - The Band have traded their Cripple Creek for a River North--Nashville-based River North Records, that is. The label, a subsidiary of Platinum Entertainment, has signed the 70s rock stalwarts...
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