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   How did Levon Helm die?

   • Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer. He was 71. “He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates,” Helm’s longtime guitarist Larry Campbell tells Rolling Stone. “All his friends were there, and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them.

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   Who is Levon Helm?

   • Levon Helm was born Mark Lavon Helm in Elaine, Arkansas, on May 26, 1940, the son of a cotton farmer. He told CNN that he was inspired by “the old traveling medicine tent shows” that would make the rounds in the South. “They had comedians and wine and music. Always a lot of music,” he said in 2010.

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   Is Levon Helm dead or still alive?

   • "Levon Helm, Drummer and Singer of The Band, Dead at 71". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012. ^ "Levon Helm dead at age 71". Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012. ^ Jon Pareles (April 20, 2012).

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   How did Levon Helm start a band?

   • In his 1993 autobiography, This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band, Helm describes watching Williamson's drummer, James "Peck" Curtis, intently during a live performance in the early 1950s and later imitating this R&B drumming style. Helm established his first band, the Jungle Bush Beaters, while in high school.

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   Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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   Apr 19, 2012 · Douglas Mason/Getty Images. Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer. He was 71. “He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2012/04/20 › artsLevon Helm, Drummer and Gravel-Throated Singer for the Band ...

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   Apr 20, 2012 · Levon Helm, who helped to forge a deep-rooted American music as the drummer and singer for the Band, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 71 and lived in Woodstock, N.Y. His death, at Memorial...

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   Apr 19, 2012 · Jan Persson/Redferns. Levon Helm, a member of influential rock group The Band, died in New York City on Thursday. The drummer, singer and actor, who backed Bob Dylan as he turned away from folk...

8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › world-us-canada-17779551The Band's Levon Helm dies at 71 - BBC News

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   Apr 20, 2012 · 20 April 2012. Comments. When Levon Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer more than a decade ago he feared he would never sing again. Levon Helm, singer and drummer for rock group The Band, has...

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    Levon Helm, who was born in 1940 in the Arkansas Delta, grew up in the hamlet of Turkey Scratch surrounded by music made by his parents, heard on the radio, and experienced in person: Seminal bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson, whose King Biscuit Time radio show blasted out of nearby Helena’s KFFA; Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, featuring ...

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    Apr 19, 2012 · Levon Helm, the drummer, multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Band who kept the band’s heart for more than three decades, died “peacefully” Thursday afternoon, according to his record...