Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock, died Wednesday at 80. “The Band’s music, and Robbie’s own later solo music, seemed to come from the deepest place at the heart of this continent, its traditions and tragedies …
Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone's First Staff Photographer, Dies At 83 Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Webber/WireImage Anna Webber/WireImage Baron Wolman, the photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, Grace Slick and others captured the immediacy of rock culture and translated it to silent paper, died Monday following a battle with ALS. A music lover, he became Rolling Stone's first staff …
