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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.
Growing up in Stratford in the 1950s, Richard Manuel was like a lot of small-town Canadian kids, singing in the church choir, taking piano lessons, hanging out. But in one critical way he was different.
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. The Band – “You Don’t Know Me”
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. He was also responsible for co-writing some of their hidden gems, among them the dreamy When You Awake and ...
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.
