{"id":6355,"date":"2025-01-24T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2025-01-24T02:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:12:25","slug":"last-surviving-member-of-the-band-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/last-surviving-member-of-the-band-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Surviving Member Of &#8220;The Band&#8221; Dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Hudson, the keyboardist and last surviving member of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/09\/robbie-robertson-the-band-co-founder-and-guitarist-dead-at-80\/\">The Band<\/a>, has died. He was 87. Hudson \u201cpassed away peacefully in his sleep\u201d on Tuesday morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York, his estate executor confirmed to the\u00a0Toronto Star.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson was a founding member of The Band alongside Robbie Robertson,\u00a0Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. Hudson was an organist, keyboardist, accordionist and saxophonist for the group.<\/p>\n<p>The Band formed in Toronto in 1957 and gained recognition in the 1960s for their work with Bob Dylan. They broke up in 1977 but then reunited in 1983 without Robertson. The group stayed together until 1999 upon Danko\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The Band released 10 studio albums, nine live albums and nine compilation albums. They were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6357\" src=\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/band1-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/band1-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/band1-1024x679.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/band1-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/band1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2008, they received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their most popular songs include \u201cThe Weight,\u201d \u201cThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,\u201d \u201cUp on Cripple Creek\u201d and \u201cIt Makes No Difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day 1976 was turned into a 1978 movie, titled \u201cThe Last Waltz,\u201d that was directed by Martin Scorsese.<\/p>\n<p>All of Hudson\u2019s former bandmates died before him.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel died by suicide at age 42 in 1986. Danko passed away at age 55 in 1999. Helm died at age 71 in 2012. And\u00a0Robertson died at age 80 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>As a solo artist, Hudson released two studio albums, one in 1980 and another in 2001, and a 2005 live album.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson talked about his musical accomplishments in a 2003 interview with Canadian magazine Maclean\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Hudson, the keyboardist and last surviving member of\u00a0The Band, has died. He was 87. Hudson \u201cpassed away peacefully in his sleep\u201d on Tuesday morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York, his estate executor confirmed to the\u00a0Toronto Star. 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