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The Band: The Band

Barney Hoskyns, Capitol Records, October 2000

'TWAS IN the early summer of 1968 that legendary rock promoter Bill Graham drove up to the Catskill mountains to propose that The Band make their live debut at one of his Fillmore venues.

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