{"id":31532,"date":"2023-08-13T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/bob-dylan-pays-tribute-to-lifelong-friend-robbie-robertson\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T08:01:51","slug":"bob-dylan-pays-tribute-to-lifelong-friend-robbie-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/bob-dylan-pays-tribute-to-lifelong-friend-robbie-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan pays tribute to ‘lifelong friend’ Robbie Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Bob Dylan<\/a> has paid tribute to his “lifelong friend” Robbie Robertson following his death at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan has paid tribute to Robbie Robertson<\/p>\n

The Band guitarist – who was part of The Hawks, the group that backed the ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ singer in the mid-1960s when he ditched his acoustic folk style in favour of rock – passed away on Wednesday (09.08.23) following a long illness, and the 82-year-old music legend has now broken his silence on the “shocking” news.<\/p>\n

He told Billboard in a statement: “This is shocking news. Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.”<\/p>\n

Following the news of his death, Mojo magazine have re-shared a 2017 interview with Robbie, in which he spoke of how proud he was to have been with Bob when he defied fans’ response to his new direction.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201c(Bob Dylan<\/a> and The Hawks) got booed all over North America, Australia, Europe, and people were saying this isn\u2019t working and we kept on and Bob didn\u2019t budge. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe got to a place where we would listen to these tapes and say, \u2018You know what? They\u2019re wrong. And we\u2019re right.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\n\u201cEight years later, we do a tour, the (1974) Dylan\/Band tour. We play the same way, same intensity and everybody says, \u2018Wow, that was amazing.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe world came around \u2013 we didn\u2019t change a note.\u201d <\/p>\n

\nAlong with writing The Band\u2019s most iconic hits including \u2018The Weight\u2019, the guitar icon recorded a string of solo albums, wrote children\u2019s books and worked with Martin Scorsese scoring more than a dozen of his films.<\/p>\n

\nRobbie\u2019s manager of 34 years, Jared Levine, announced his death in a statement earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: \u201cRobbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife, Dominique, her partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra, Sebastian, Delphine and Delphine\u2019s partner Kenny. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cHe is also survived by his grandchildren Angelica, Donovan, Dominic, Gabriel and Seraphina.\u201d <\/p>\n

\nInstead of flowers, the guitarist\u2019s family asked fans to make any donations they wished to the Six Nations of the Grand River to \u201csupport a new Woodland Cultural Center\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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