Guitarist, singer and songwriter Robbie Robertson passed away at the age of 80.

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Leader of 'The Band' Robbie Robertson Dies at 80

Guitarist, songwriter and singer, Robbie Robertson has died at the age of 80. Robertson was known for leading Canadian American rock group. The band in the 19 seventies, he wrote some of the band's top hits, including Up On Cripple Creek and the Wait, the band was credited with helping American music which fuses rock country and folk by the way of storytelling. Some of the band's early collaborators included Bob Dylan Robertson's death was announced yesterday by his long time manager Jared Levine who says Robertson was surrounded by his family at the time of his death.