The Night They Put The Band To Rest: The Last Waltz Revisited
The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 26 April 2002
"THE LAST WALTZ" was The Band's star-studded swansong, staged on Thanksgiving Day, 1976. Martin Scorsese made a timeless rockumentary about it, inspiring a hundred alt.roots-rockers and, of course, Marti Di Bergi's This is Spinal Tap.
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