Yesterday we lost Dick Clark... today Levon Helm ... we can only pray that Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees survives pneumonia. God speed to Robin!
With songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," ''The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek," The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story. In truth, the group had only one American -- Levon Helm. [more...]
Did you know that The hero of Elton John's song "Levon" (co-written with Bernie Taupin) was named after Levon Helm? John much later named his son (born on December 25, 2010) "Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.
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