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The Band

Formed
1967
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Active Decades
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by Bruce Eder
For about six years, from 1968 through 1975, The Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Their albums were analyzed and reviewed as intensely as any records by their one-time employer and sometime mentor Bob Dylan. And for a long time, their personalities were as recognizable individually to the casual music public as the members of The Beatles.



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