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. More @Wikipedia
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