Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best embodies the glorious, lawless amalgamation of styles at the very heart of rock and roll—died at the age of eighty-seven,

Bob Dylan, for whom The Band had provided support for his infamous shift to electric music in the mid-1960s, was on hand. So were Eric Clapton and Joni Mitchell. Van Morrison and Ringo Starr. A pair of Neils – Young and Diamond.