Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- This wheel's on fire
- Love of Cats Calendar 2022
- Levon Helm Midnight Ramble
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1940-05-26
- Active to
- 2012-04-19
Discography
- Levon Helm and the RCO All‐Stars1977
- Levon Helm1978
- American Son1980
- Levon Helm1982
- Souvenir, Vol. 11998
- Dirt Farmer2007
- Toolin’ Around Woodstock2008
- Electric Dirt2009
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- 113,257
- Total plays
- 1,171,373
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Mark Lavon Helm (May 26, 1940-April 19, 2012), better known as Levon Helm, was an American rock musician most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band. Helm was also known for his deeply soulful, country-style voice, and powerful drumming style highlighted on many of the The Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "King Harvest", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Early years Helm was born in Marvell, Arkansas and began playing the guitar at th
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Key facts
- Born
- Mark Lavon Helm , ( 1940-05-26 ) May 26, 1940, Elaine, Arkansas , U.S.
- Died
- April 19, 2012 (2012-04-19) (aged 71), New York City , U.S.
- Resting place
- Woodstock Cemetery
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter singer record producer
- Years active
- 1957–2012
- Spouse
- Connie Orr ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 , divorced ) Sandra Dodd ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. September 7, 1981</span>"}]]}'>1981 )
- Partner
- Libby Titus (1969–1978)
- Children
- Amy Helm
- Genres
- Rock Americana country folk roots rock
- Instruments
- Drums vocals mandolin guitar bass harmonica
- Labels
- Capitol MCA
- Formerly of
- The Band Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
- Website
- levonhelm .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- levonhelm.com
- Image
- LevonHelmWoodstockNY2004.jpg
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- Levon Helm
- date of birth
- 1940-05-26
- date of death
- 2012-04-19
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- birth name
- Mark Lavon Helm
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Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style, highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
Helm also had a successful career as a film actor, appearing as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), as Chuck Yeager's friend and colleague Captain Jack Ridley in The Right Stuff (1983), the father of Laura Dern's character in Smooth Talk (1985), as a Tennessee firearms expert in Shooter (2007), and as General John Bell Hood in In the Electric Mist (2009).