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The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
Apr 26, 1978 · The Last Waltz: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With The Band, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson. A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
- (20K)
- Documentary, Biography, Music
- Martin Scorsese
- 1978-04-26
- 6 min
- Jesse Kinos-Goodin
- The last supper. We've all seen the film, but what many people don't realize is that the concert, held on American Thanksgiving, was a long celebratory farewell, which included a Thanksgiving feast for 5,000 people who paid $25 for tickets — an astronomical price at a time when tickets normally sold for between $4-$7.
- Secret guests before secret guests were cool. Drake and Taylor Swift may have made it their calling cards to bring out a range of surprise guests on their tours, but 40 years earlier, the Band already had it perfected.
- The white room. Robertson was asked to help prepare Scorsese's film crew by recommending a movie they could watch. He suggested Jean Cocteau's avant garde film The Blood of a Poet, for reasons he still doesn't remember.
- Neil Young's cocaine booger. Young must have spent his fair share of time in the Cocteau Room, as he reportedly came out to perform "Helpless" with a large cocaine rock stuck up his nose.
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Nov 25, 2020 · Martin Scorsese's documentary 'The Last Waltz' captures the Band's legendary farewell concert: Read how the night changed rock cinema.
