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The rock legend tells the story of his wild ride with Martin Scorsese as friends adventure seekers and boundary pushing collaborators with all the heart of his New York Times bestselling memoir Testimony For four decades Robbie Robertson produced music for Martin Scorsese s films a relationship that began when Robertson convinced Scorsese to direct The Last Waltz the iconic film of the Band s farewell performance at the Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving 1976 The closing of the Band s story with that landmark concert thrust Robertson into a new and uncertain world With his relationship with his bandmates deteriorating and his marriage collapsing Robertson arrived on Scorsese s Beverly Hills doorstep only to find his friend in similar straits Before the night was out Scorsese had invited him to move in Both men already culture transforming stars before the age of thirty five stood at a creative precipice searching for the beginning of a new phase of life and work As their friendship deepened into a career altering collaboration their shared journey would take them around the world and down the rabbit hole of American culture in the long hangover of the seventies Buffeted on either side by temptation and paranoia veering closer to self destructi

Isto non é (só) un libro de música. Velaquí a experiencia colectiva dun fato de xente nova que, nos anos noventa, decidiu saír do rego do discurso dominante e -co poder da lingua galega- dialogar con vehemencia coa sua propia realidade. Proclama que transcendeu dende as marxes e deixou pegada en toda a sua xeracion.A ruta continua. Porque, como dixo Miguel Anxo Murado: Na antitese da morriña esta o bravu.