The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson passed away at age 80.

Robbie Robertson, a guitarist and one of the founding members of the Canadian band The Band,

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passed away on Thursday, September 9, at the age of 80,

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in Los Angeles. He was receiving long-term treatment for an undisclosed disease.

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"Robbie was close to his family at the time of his death,

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including his wife Janet,

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his ex-wife Dominique, his partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra,

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Sebastian, and Delphine," said Robertson's CEO Jared Levine in a statement.

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Robertson recently finished his 14th musical cinema project with longstanding collaborator Martin Scorsese, "Killers of the Flower Moon."

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