Robbie Robertson. Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images Robbie Robertson. Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist and the primary songwriter for Canadian rock luminaries The Band, has died at age 80. Family member Dawn Robertson confirmed the news to NPR. The Rock and Roll
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Robbie Robertson, Guitarist and Songwriter With the Band, Dies at 80
Robbie Robertson, the chief composer and lead guitarist for the Band, whose work offered a rustic vision of America that seemed at once mythic and authentic, in the process helping to inspire the genre that came to be known as Americana, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Mets trade David Robertson to Marlins amid disappointing season: ‘I figured I would be moved’
The New York Mets entered the 2023 MLB season with sky-high hopes after going on a spending spree during the offseason and building the highest payroll in baseball history with World Series expectations. On Thursday, New York traded closer David Robertson to the Miami Marlins for two young prospects, signaling
Pat Robertson, televangelist and a leader of the religious right, dies at 93
Pat Robertson speaks during a forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2015. Robertson was a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his
Jeanne Robertson, 77, Down-Home Humorist With a Pageant Past, Dies
Jeanne Robertson, who turned her title of Miss Congeniality at the 1963 Miss America pageant into a career as a public speaker and who later found success as a squeaky clean humorist with a sizable YouTube following, died on Aug. 21 at her home in Burlington, N.C. She was 77.