{"id":29376,"date":"2024-04-26T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-26-1978-the-concert-film-the-last-waltz-was-released\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:03:41","slug":"on-this-day-april-26-1978-the-concert-film-the-last-waltz-was-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-26-1978-the-concert-film-the-last-waltz-was-released\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 26, 1978: The concert film &#8216;The Last Waltz&#8217; was released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-26\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, April 26, 1978 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert documentary\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Last Waltz<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, about\u00a0<strong>The Band<\/strong>\u2019s farewell concert, opened in theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The movie, directed by\u00a0<strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong>, focused on The Band\u2019s Thanksgiving Day show on November 25, 1976, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco; it was billed as their \u201cfarewell concert appearance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show featured guest appearances by a whole host of musicians, including\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eric\u00a0Clapton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Dr. John<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ronnie Wood<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Muddy Waters<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Neil Diamond<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Van Morrison\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Neil Young<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Considered one of the greatest concert documentaries of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 45th anniversary of the movie was celebrated in 2023 with\u00a0the release of a three-LP audiophile pressing of the soundtrack and a one-night screening of the film in movie theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, April 26, 1978 \u2026 The concert documentary\u00a0The Last Waltz, about\u00a0The Band\u2019s farewell concert, opened in theaters. The movie, directed by\u00a0Martin Scorsese, focused on The Band\u2019s Thanksgiving Day show on November 25, 1976, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco; it was billed as their \u201cfarewell concert appearance.\u201d<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-26-1978-the-concert-film-the-last-waltz-was-released\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}