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A big-time goodbye for The Band

Wayne Robins, Newsday, 30 April 1978

THERE WAS nothing small-time about The Last Waltz. It was a concert held in San Francisco a year ago last Thanksgiving to mark the final performance by The Band, which was retiring after 16 years of touring.

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