The Band's Robbie Robertson: 'The Struggle Has Gone'
Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 3 January 1976
ROBBIE ROBERTSON: "We'd been around so long that we couldn't take a name seriously. So we made the first album and we called ourselves the Band. It's like no name at all, but people now had a way of referring to us."
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