There was revolution in the air in Cambridge in 1969. Of course, they were just kids playing at it. But there really was a revolution and the kids missed it. I and a select few sensitives did not. For we had gazed in wonder at a brown LP sleeve with a monochrome photograph of five hairy guys looking serious, not to say threatening.
The LP was called The Band and it was by a group called, er, The Band. The hairy guy on the right of the picture was the band leader and founder – Robbie Robertson. He just died, aged 80, in Los Angeles.
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