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In Martin Scorsese: Films of the 1970s: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York
…concert into the well-received rockumentary The Last Waltz (1978), with unparalleled performance footage of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and other musical luminaries. Next came American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978), in which Prince, a friend of Scorsese who memorably played the gun
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In the Band: The Last Waltz and the death of Richard Manuel
…immortalized by Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Waltz (1978), with guest appearances by Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others. With only the lackluster Islands (1977) as a last, contract-honoring memento of their career, the Band quickly fragmented. In 1983, sans Robertson, the group re-formed and played a less-than-spectacular tour.…
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