Robbie Robertson: Last News

Bob Dylan has finally spoken about the death of his longtime collaborator, Robbie Robertson.

The Band, has died at the age of 87.The Canadian virtuoso multi-instrumentalist who was best known for his distinctive organ and saxophone work passed away today (January 21) at the Ten Broeck Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in upstate New York.According to the executor of his estate (as per The Guardian), Hudson died peacefully in his sleep in the nursing home where he was living. No cause of death has been shared.

The Band, has died. He was 87.Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” on Tuesday morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York, his estate executor confirmed to the Toronto Star.Hudson was a founding member of The Band alongside Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. Hudson was an organist, keyboardist, accordionist and saxophonist for the group.The Band formed in Toronto in 1957 and gained recognition in the 1960s for their work with Bob Dylan.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Wicked” composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz is set to receive the Icon Award from the Guild of Music Supervisors. Schwartz musical credits include “Enchanted,” “Godspell” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Music producer Bonnie Greenberg is set to receive the Guild’s Legacy Award.

The Society of Composers & Lyricists has charted the nominees for its 2025 SCL Awards, which celebrate excellence and innovation in music for visual media. Emilia Pérez composers Clément Ducol and Camille and Challengers and Shōgun composer Atticus Ross lead the field with three noms each. See the full list below.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Leading contenders for the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ 2025 SCL Awards include “Emilia Pérez” composers Clément Ducol and Camille, who picked up three nominations, for their score and for two original songs from the musical drama. Matching that number as an individual was Atticus Ross, whose three nominations are split between his scoring work on “Shōgun” and a song for “Challengers.” The SCL’s nominations in eight film, television and interactive media categories were announced Wednesday morning, with the awards program scheduled to take place in Los Angeles on Feb.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Here’s who wasn’t taking a load off: the house band at Thursday’s tribute to Robbie Robertson at the L.A. area’s Kia Forum.

Martin Scorsese is set to direct the filming of a tribute concert in honour of The Band‘s Robbie Robertson.Robertson died in August 2023, aged 80, and previously Scorsese documented The Band’s farewell show in The Last Waltz, which was released in 1978 and is widely considered an all-time classic music documentary.He scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf Of Wall Street The Irishman and Killers Of The Flower Moon.Now, it has been confirmed that Scorsese will direct the ‘Life Is A Carnival: A Musical Celebration Of Robbie Robertson’ tribute concert, which is due to take place at LA’s Kia Forum tonight (October 17), for a future release.Scorsese will also serve as one of the executive producers of the concert, along with Jared Levine, Keith Wortman and Scooter Weintraub, reports Variety.Among the artists expected to perform at the show are Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, U2 producer Daniel Lanois, Mavis Staples, Margo Price, My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James, Trey Anastasio, Eric Church, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Taj Mahal, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Bobby Weir and Lucinda Williams.The house band will also feature Ryan Bingham, Jamey Johnson, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Don Was, John Medeski, Dave Malone, Terence Higgins, Cyril Neville, Mark Mullins and the Levee Horns.You can find further information on the concert here and tickets can be purchased here.The format in which a film of the Robertson concert might come out has not yet been revealed.Meanwhile, Scorsese is also producing a new Beatles documentary coming to Disney+ next month.The film, titled Beatles ’64, is set to arrive exclusively on the streaming platform on

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Libby Titus, a singer who recorded two albums in the late 1960s and ’70s before retiring from the music scene, later becoming the wife of Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at age 77. No cause of death was given. Fagen announced her death on Steely Dan’s website.

EXCLUSIVE: Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans, Jr. will get a chance to pay tribute to their old gigs on In Living Color and New Girl by featuring special appearances by Tommy Davidson and Lamorne Morris on their new CBS comedy Poppa’s House.

George Harrison‘s 1973 solo album ‘Living In The Material World’ is receiving a 50th anniversary boxset reissue – find out all the details below.The late Beatles guitarist’s fourth album as a solo musician is getting a massive reissue later this year in celebration of the record’s 50th anniversary. The anniversary reissue was announced yesterday (September 19), and is due for release on November 15 via Dark Horse Records/BMG.

Eric Clapton has some choice words to say about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.The veteran singer-songwriter was speaking in an interview with The Real Music Observer when he made the comments, in which he criticised the exclusion of some influential artists, like the late guitarist J.J. Cale.Clapton said, of his own inductions into the Hall, “I came to that thing, whatever it is. I think of it as a frat boys club that happened to lure [me] in.“I think the fact that they had [former Atlantic Records president and Hall Of Fame chairman] Ahmet Ertegun was the ticket for me.

The Band is back together…sort of.On Oct. 17, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Noah Kahan, Elvis Costello, Trey Anastasio and more are teaming up for a one-night-only tribute to Robbie Robertson and The Band they’re calling ‘Life Is A Carnival: The Last Waltz’ at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum.After that star-studded affair, the show is hitting the road.From Oct. 19 through Nov.

‘Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson’ concert, in honor of the recently deceased Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.Icons set to take part inthe star-studded, Martin Scorsese-produced affair include ’60s and ’70s icons Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Bobby Weir, Mavis Staples and Taj Mahal.Noah Kahan, Elvis Costello, Eric Church, Nathaniel Rateliff and Margo Price will also pay their respects to The Band founder.We’re still just getting started.Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, My Morning Jacket singer Jim James, Lucinda Williams, Warren Haynes and Bruce Hornsby are slated to perform as well.In total, 23 artists have been confirmed for ‘Life Is a Carnival’ with more on the way.As for what to expect, “the concert promises to include work from Robertson’s solo career, which began in 1987, as well as selections from the Band’s recordings, which ran from 1968’s “Music From Big Pink” through 1977’s ‘Islands,'” according to Variety.Fans can purchase tickets for ‘Life Is a Carnival’ on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale is Friday, Aug.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Some of the most illustrious names in rock — and other genres — will pay tribute to Robbie Robertson in a celebratory concert at the L.A.-area Kia Forum on Oct. 17, with the musician’s longtime friend and collaborator Martin Scorsese among the executive producers. The lineup for “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson” includes some contemporaries who came up with the Band‘s late songwriter-guitarist in the ’60s.

EXCLUSIVE: Li Jun Li (Wu Assassins) is set as a series regular opposite Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir.

After scoring his first Emmy nomination for his work in the fifth season of FX‘s crime anthology Fargo, Lamorne Morris hopped on the phone with Deadline to tease Sony’s SNL 1975 and Prime Video’s Spider-Noir, also discussing his hopes for the future of his career.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Lamorne Morris will star alongside Nicolas Cage in the upcoming live-action Spider-Man Noir series at Amazon, Variety has learned. The show, now titled “Spider-Noir,” was formally ordered to series in May with Cage in the lead role.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorMovie, TV and music fans are already remembering notable figures who have died since the start of 2024. “An Officer and a Gentleman” Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr., “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor Richard Lewis, “Starsky and Hutch” star David Soul and “Honeymooners” star Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie, are among celebrities from the world of television who have died. In film, cinephiles are remembering “Moonstruck” director Norman Jewison and “Mary Poppins” actress Glynis Johns.Last year, the entertainment community said goodbye to celebrities including musicians Jimmy Buffett, Shane McGowan, Robbie Robertson and David Crosby, actors Andre Braugher and Matthew Perry, writer-producer Norman Lear and director William Friedkin.David Soul, who starred as Sergeant Kenneth Richard “Hutch” Hutchinson in the TV series “Starsky & Hutch,” died Jan.

Courtney Love has paid tribute to her friend Angela McClusky, the frontwoman of ‘90s band the Wild Colonials, who has died at the age of 64.News of McClusky’s death was confirmed on Thursday (March 14) in a post on her official Instagram account, which read: “We are devastated to tell you that our beloved Angela McCluskey has left us to be with her fellow angels. Never did anyone live life more fully, love more generously, sing more… well, just… more.”The singer died after being in a coma following emergency surgery for an arterial tear.Last night (March 19), Love, who had been close friends with McClusky, dedicated her DJ set at the National Portrait Gallery’s fundraising gala to the woman that she described as “the Angel of Glasgow”.Love said that McClusky had “maybe the world’s most beautiful voice”, before introducing the song ‘Breathe’, which McClusky made with the French dance group Télépopmusik in 2002.A post shared by Fuck Yeah, Courtney Love.

Andrea Bocelli performed a rendition of the song ‘Time to Say Goodbye’ with his son Matteo Bocelli to accompany the Academy’s annual obituary section. Perhaps mindful of previous years, in which eagle-eyed viewers have jumped on omissions, this year’s “In Memoriam” seemed both comprehensive but at the same time not enough, with a bizarre postscript that lumped together artists as diverse as (in alphabetical order) Kenneth Anger, Terence Davies, Carl Davis, David McCallum, Sinead O’Connor, Paolo Taviani and Treat Williams in a well-meaning but unintentionally backhanded postscript.

Jaden Thompson Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” took home multiple awards at the 14th Music Supervisors Guild Awards, held March 3 at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre. The event celebrates outstanding achievement in the craft of music supervision, acknowledging work across film, television, documentaries, advertising, trailers and video games.