Like Hardcore Logo, the 2005 Canadian film The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, about a country rock singer, was also done as a fake documentary with appearances by Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Hawkins, Merle Haggard and Levon Helm playing themselves.

* 1940 – Levon Helm, American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor ( The Band and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band ) ( d. 2012 )

The Band was a Canadian / American roots rock group that originally consisted of Rick Danko ( bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals ), Levon Helm ( drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals ), Garth Hudson ( keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet ), Richard Manuel ( piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals ) and Robbie Robertson ( guitar, vocals ).

Levon Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998, and after a series of treatments was able to regain use of his voice.

In his 1993 autobiography This Wheel's on Fire – Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, Helm disputes the validity of the official songwriting credits as listed on the albums, and explains that The Band's songs were often honed and recorded through collaboration between all members.

" Robertson for his part denied that Helm had written any of the songs attributed to Robertson and his daughter later remarked in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that Levon Helm's solo work consists almost entirely of songs written by others.

In 1963, Levon Helm met the groupie Cathy Smith, with whom he and other members of the Band would have a long association.

Upon leaving Hawkins in 1964, they were briefly known as the Levon Helm Sextet with sax player Jerry Penfound being the sixth member, then Levon and the Hawks after Penfound's departure.

Levon and the Hawks were recommended by blues singer John Hammond, who earlier that year had used Helm, Hudson and Robertson on his Vanguard album So Many Roads.

( Levon Helm had departed in October 1965, depressed by the booing which greeted their live performances.

Levon Helm regards this album highly in his book, This Wheel's on Fire: " It was the best album we had done since The Band.

In the late 70s and 80s, Helm released several solo albums and toured with a band called Levon Helm and the RCO Allstars.

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Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.

* Levon Helm as Reverend Bob Goodall

The 1998 release of the acclaimed Deserter's Songs ( which featured appearances by Garth Hudson and Levon Helm of The Band ) made Mercury Rev unexpected pop stars.

Mark Lavon “ Levon ” Helm was born on May 26, 1940, outside Elaine ( Phillips County ) to Nell and Diamond Helm.

In 1965, they released a single on Ware Records under the name Canadian Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965.

According to Levon Helm's autobiography, in the later stages of his illness, Manuel was consuming eight bottles of Grand Marnier per day.

On October 25, 1991, Becker attended a concert of the New York Rock and Soul Revue, co-founded by Fagen and producer / singer Libby Titus ( who was for many years the partner of Levon Helm of The Band and would later become Fagen's wife ), and performed spontaneously with the group.

In 1963, the band parted ways with Hawkins and started touring under the name " Levon and The Hawks ," and later as " The Canadian Squires " before finally changing back to " The Hawks.

Initially, they were known as the Levon Helm Sextet ( as Helm had accumulated the most time with Hawkins ), then later changed their name to the Canadian Squires and then to Levon and the Hawks.

Levon Ter-Petrossian soon after his release was elected chairman of the anti-communist opposition Pan-Armenian National Movement, and later stated that it was in 1989 that he first began to consider the idea of complete Armenian independence from the USSR.

Harrison duly shared his enthusiasm with the British music press, declaring Big Pink " the new sound to come from America ", drummer Levon Helm later recalled, thus helping to establish The Band internationally.

Moulton sang lead on the track, but instead of the original members, he was backed by New York session musicians including members of Levon ( Helm ) & The Hawks, later to be known as The Band.

* Armenian poetess Silva Kaputikyan wrote a poem It's raining my sonny dedicated to the memory of Levon Ekmekjian, an ASALA member, one of two organizers of the Esenboğa International Airport attack in 1983.

Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote the song " Levon " for Helm.

Marc Cohn wrote the song " Listening to Levon " in 2007.

According to Levon Helm, Hawkins remarked to him about Manuel: " See that kid playing piano?

" Levon Helm had this to say about Manuel during this period: "... he was drinking pretty hard, but once he got started, man: drums, piano, play it all, sing, do a lead in one of them high, hard-assed keys to sing in.

The Band returned to the Quality Inn, down the block from the Cheek to Cheek Lounge, and Manuel talked with Levon Helm about music, film, etc., in Helm's room.

Levon Helm, in his 1993 autobiography This Wheel's on Fire, expresses serious reservations about Scorsese's handling of the film, claiming that Scorsese and Robbie Robertson ( who produced the film ) conspired to make The Band look like Robbie Robertson's sidemen.

The last time the song was performed by Levon Helm was in The Last Waltz ( 1976 ).

The Levon Helm Band featured his daughter guitarist Amy Helm, along with Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Jim Weider ( the Band's last guitarist ), Jimmy Vivino, Mike Merritt, Brian Mitchell, Erik Lawrence, Steven Bernstein, Howard Johnson ( tuba player in the horn section who played on The Band's " Rock of Ages " and " The Last Waltz " live albums ), Byron Isaacs, and blues harmonica player Little Sammy Davis.

Johnson also played with The Band on their Rock of Ages live album, The Last Waltz and into the late 2000s with The Band drummer, Levon Helm's Band.

He also appears on Whitey Morgan and the 78's recorded at Levon Helm's studio in December 2009 and January 2010 by the Outlaw Country band Whitey Morgan and the 78's and Last Bird Home by Chris Castle, also recorded at Levon's studio in 2011. Campbell played guitar, pedal steel, banjo, slide, mandolin, and fiddle on Dan Brenner's 2011 album Little Dark Angel produced by 8-time Grammy winner Jay Newland.

In 1993, Helm published an autobiography entitled This Wheel's on Fire – Levon Helm and the Story of The Band.

" In his autobiography, Levon Helm was critical of the inclusion of Diamond, not discerning any musical connection to The Band.

Helm reports in his biography, This Wheel's on Fire, that fellow Hawks band members had difficulty pronouncing " Lavon " correctly, and started calling him " Levon " ( ) because it was easier to pronounce.

* This Wheel's on Fire – Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, with Levon Helm, 1994, Plexus Publishing, ISBN 0-85965-216-5