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Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Jun 2, 2021 · Richard Manuel was a singer, songwriter, and pianist for the folk-rock group, The Band. He is remembered as a supremely talented yet tortured soul whose demons eventually got the best of him. The Band got its start as The Hawks, a backing band for Ronnie Hawkins in Canada in the early 1960s.
Mar 4, 2013 · Richard Manuel killed himself following a concert by the Band in Winter Park, Fla.; his body was discovered on March 4, 1986.
WATCHING RICHARD in The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's film of their 1976 farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland, is a kind of memento mori, a preview of coming destruction.
Mar 4, 2024 · On March 4th, 1986, following a show in Winter Park, FL, Richard Manuel committed suicide by hanging in his motel room. He was 42 years old.
Mar 6, 1986 · Richard Manuel, the singer, pianist, songwriter and occasional drummer with the rock group the Band, was found dead Tuesday in his motel room in Winter Park, Fla. The police said the death was...
Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Mar 3, 2014 · Like most members of The Band, Manuel was a skilled multi-instrumentalist and would move from piano to drums when Levon Helm took on mandolin duties – see Evangeline and Rag Mama Rag for key examples of The Band’s second configuration.
On March 4th 1986, the Band's lead singer, pianist, and drummer Richard Manuel died in a motel room in Winter Park, Florida, while touring with the reunited Band. His emotional, soulful voice and his beautiful songwriting was essential to the success of the original group.
Apr 3, 2023 · Richard Manuel, one of the founding members of the highly influential rock group The Band, would have celebrated his 80th birthday today. The multi-talented instrumentalist and vocalist...
