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Apr 21st 2012, 08:43

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Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer. He was 71. He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this after.

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer. He was 71. He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this after.

Photo: Craig Ruttle, AP Levon Helm, who helped forge a deep-rooted American music as the drummer and singer for the Band, died Thursday in Manhattan at age 71 from complications of cancer, said a spokeswoman for Vanguard Records, for which he had

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