Robbie Robertson
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943-07-05
- Died
- 2023-08-09
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Notus
- Insomnia
- Turnstones 2 (English for Scotland S2)
- Robbie Robertson - Guitar Anthology
- Turnstones 1
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Film & TV
Sound · Toronto, Ontario
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist. Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…
Known for
- Mr. Scorsese — Self2025
- Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson — Self (archive footage)2024
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On — Self2022
- The Band: Stage Fright (50th Anniversery Ed.)2021
- The Dancing Man of L.A. — Self (archive footage)2021
- Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band — Self2020
- Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble — Self2020
- Native America — Self - Narrator (voice)2019
- Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World2019
- Elvis Presley: The Searcher — Self2018
via TMDB
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- 153,341
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- 1,589,905
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Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist. Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and into Canada's Walk of Fame, with t
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
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- NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update
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- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
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Key facts
- Born
- Jaime Royal Robertson , ( 1943-07-05 ) July 5, 1943, Toronto , Ontario, Canada
- Died
- August 9, 2023 (2023-08-09) (aged 80), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter singer composer
- Years active
- 1956–2023
- Spouses
- Dominique Bourgeois ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2003 ) Janet Zuccarini ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2023 )
- Children
- 3, including Sebastian
- Genres
- Rock Americana blues
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals
- Labels
- Capitol Geffen Warner
- Formerly of
- The Band
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 5 July 1943
- Died
- 9 August 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Robertson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- country rock
- Instrument
- voice
Article
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician, composer, and producer. Robertson was the onetime lead guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band. He was also the guitarist and primary songwriter of the Band from its inception until his 1976 departure. In his later solo career, Robertson released six albums.
Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band; he was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame, both with the Band and on his own. Robertson is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He wrote "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" with the Band and had a solo hit with "Somewhere Down the Crazy River". He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters.
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