The Weight - 50th Anniversary

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Robbie Robertson of The Band penned this song 50 years ago. As a film soundtrack producer and composer, Robertson is known for his collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, which began with the rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978), and continued through a number of dramatic films, including Raging Bull (1980), Casino (1995), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Irishman (2019).

"The Weight" is a timeless piece and this international version is, IMO, brilliant. Enjoy!

 

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This can't be true because Music from the Big Pink came out in 1968... and last I checked my copy has The Weight on it!

Awesome band though, my dad's favourite and one of my own too. My favourites are Tears of Rage, The Night they Drove ol Dixie down and Cripple Creek!

 

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This can't be true because Music from the Big Pink came out in 1968... and last I checked my copy has The Weight on it!

Awesome band though, my dad's favourite and one of my own too. My favourites are Tears of Rage, The Night they Drove ol Dixie down and Cripple Creek!

You're quite right. Here is some further background courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine 27/3/2020

"In 1968, the Band recorded “The Weight,” a song full of images and characters that Robbie Robertson said he had been storing in his imagination for years. Robertson admits in his autobiography, Testimony, that he struggled to articulate to producer John Simon what the song was even about, but it’s become the Band’s most well-known classic, and it still echoes loudly today. Playing for Change, a group dedicated to “opening up how people see the world through the lens of music and art,” recently spent two years filming artists around the world, from Japan to Bahrain to Los Angeles, performing the song. Robertson takes part, and so does Ringo Starr. Web traffic for the video has surged in recent days as the world confronts the coronavirus, and it has been a top story on RollingStone.com."

So the clip was 2 years in the making and was commenced to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the song.