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Mar 4, 2023 · The Band, from left, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson in Woodstock, New York, 1968. — Photo by Elliott Landy. The night he died, Richard and The Band had performed at the Cheek to Cheek Lounge next to the Quality Inn in the Orlando suburb of Winter Park where the group was staying during their Florida ...
Oct 7, 2021 · Richard Manuel, 1969. Photo by Elliott Landy “Oh, to be home again/Down in Old Virginny/With my very best friend/They call him Ragtime Willie”
Dec 8, 2016 · Richard Manuel was succumbing to alcoholism (he would later commit suicide while on tour in 1986), and he, Helm, and Danko (who died in 1999) were getting mixed up with harder stuff as well ...
Sep 2, 2021 · Richard Manuel, 1971. Photo: Ellie de Waard Last of the Blacksmiths. One of the signatures of Richard Manuel’s vocals was an incessant ability to sound completely, desperately anguished and one ...
Richard George Manuel was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Manuel's singing alternated between a soul-influenced baritone that drew frequent comparisons to Ray Charles and a delicate falsetto. Though The Band had three vocalists ...
Mar 6, 1986 · Richard Manuel, singer, composer and pianist for The Band, hanged himself in a motel bathroom hours after performing with the rock group at a lounge in Orlando, Fla., police said Wednesday.
Richard Manuel (1943-1986) Richard Manuel. Richard Manuel was one of the leaders of the rock group The Band. Known as the "funny" one, Manuel was also very frail and was prone to drug use. He sang some of the group's most prominent songs, "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)", "Tears of Rage", "Whispering Pines" and "I Shall Be Released".
