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The Really Last Waltz
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Dead: Levon Helm, after a battle with cancer at 71. Probably at or near the top of the list among drummer/singers (do not even TRY with Phil Collins, and Dave Grohl doesn't quite count since he didn't sing lead with Nirvana and he plays pretty much everything in the Foo Fighters. Are we okay with that? Oh, wait, Karen Carpenter....). Trivia: His name wasn't Levon to start. It was Lavon (his middle name). He changed it because the other members of The Band/Levon and the Hawks had trouble pronouncing Lavon. More trivia: The name of The Band wasn't supposed to be The Band- there was no band name on "Music From Big Pink." But the album cover listed the members' names under the words The Band, so that was what they became. (New York Times)
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