Biography of robertson

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Retrieved 24 September Pockets Sports. Archived from the original on 4 December Champions all the way' ". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June Retrieved 11 September Archived from the original on 4 April Archived from the original on 2 January According to the Queen's University Journal Davies enrolled as a special student not working towards a degree, because he was unable to pass the mathematics component of Queen's entrance exam.

The next year he published his thesis, Shakespeare's Boy Actors , and embarked on an acting career outside London. In , he played small roles and did literary work for the director at the Old Vic Repertory Company in London. Also that year, Davies married Australian Brenda Mathews , whom he had met at Oxford, and who was then working as stage manager for the theatre.

Davies's early life provided him with themes and material to which he would often return in his later work, including the theme of Canadians returning to England to finish their education, and the theatre. Davies and his new bride returned to Canada in , where he took the position of literary editor at Saturday Night magazine. Two years later, he became editor of the Peterborough Examiner in the small city of Peterborough , Ontario, northeast of Toronto.

Again he was able to mine his experiences here for many of the characters and situations which later appeared in his plays and novels. Davies, along with family members William Rupert Davies and Arthur Davies, purchased several media outlets. During his tenure as editor of the Examiner , which lasted from to he subsequently served as publisher from to , Davies published a total of 18 books, produced several of his own plays, and wrote articles for various journals.

Meanwhile, Davies was writing humorous essays in the Examiner under the pseudonym Samuel Marchbanks. An omnibus edition of the three Marchbanks books, with new notes by the author, was published under the title The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks in During the s, Davies played a major role in launching the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada. He served on the Festival's board of governors, and collaborated with the Festival's director, Sir Tyrone Guthrie , in publishing three books about the Festival's early years.

Although his first love was drama and he had achieved some success with his occasional humorous essays, Davies found his greatest success in fiction. His first three novels, which later became known as The Salterton Trilogy , were Tempest-Tost , originally conceived as a play , Leaven of Malice , also the basis of the unsuccessful play Love and Libel which won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour , and A Mixture of Frailties In a essay on Nabokov's Lolita, he wrote that she was a corrupt child taking advantage of a weak adult.

In , Davies joined Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where he would teach literature until The following year he published a collection of essays on literature, A Voice From the Attic , and was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal for his literary achievements. Davies drew on his interest in Jungian psychology to create Fifth Business , a novel that relies heavily on Davies's own experiences, his love of myth and magic , and his knowledge of small-town mores.

The narrator, like Davies, is of immigrant Canadian background, with a father who runs the town paper. The book's characters act in roles that roughly correspond to Jungian archetypes according to Davies's belief in the predominance of spirit over the things of the world. Davies built on the success of Fifth Business with two more novels: The Manticore , a novel cast largely in the form of a Jungian analysis for which he received that year's Governor General's Literary Award , [ 10 ] and World of Wonders Together these three books came to be known as The Deptford Trilogy.

When Davies retired from his position at the university, his seventh novel, a satire of academic life, The Rebel Angels , was published, followed by What's Bred in the Bone which was short-listed for the Booker Prize for fiction in During his retirement from academe he continued to write novels which further established him as a major figure in the literary world: Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man In its obituary, The Times wrote: "Davies encompassed all the great elements of life His novels combined deep seriousness and psychological inquiry with fantasy and exuberant mirth.

Davies was married to Brenda Ethel Davies — in and survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren from his three daughters Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey and author Jennifer Surridge. Robertson identified strongly with Martinez' music, helped him to secure a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, and agreed to produce Martinez' debut album.

He also played guitar on Martinez' follow-up album, Big Bright Street In the mids, Robertson connected with singer Neil Diamond, and the two began collaborating on a concept album about the life and struggles of a Tin Pan Alley songwriter. It reached 6 on the Billboard charts and remained in the Top 40 for sixteen weeks. Love at the Greek reached 8 on the Billboard charts and remained in the Top 40 for nine weeks.

In , Robertson contributed to two album projects from the Band alumni. Also in , Robertson contributed to the second self-titled album by singer-songwriter Libby Titus , who was the former girlfriend of Levon Helm. The screenplay for the film Carny was directed by documentary filmmaker Robert Kaylor. Although Robertson was initially only intended to be the producer of Carny , he ended up becoming the third lead actor in the film, playing the role of Patch, the patch man.

Gary Busey played "Frankie", the carnival bozo and Patch's best friend. Jodie Foster was selected to play the role of Donna, a small town girl who runs away to join the carnival and threatens to come between the two friends. The film cast real life carnies alongside professional film actors, which created a difficult atmosphere on set. The soundtrack was re-released on compact disc by Real Gone Music in He's a frustrated musician, and I guess I was a frustrated filmmaker.

So it was a perfect connect. The former found or created music to underscore the latter's films. Raging Bull was the first, and Robertson credited his work on it for sparking his interest in sourcing and underscoring film music. These three tracks feature Robertson playing guitar, along with performances from the Band alumni Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel.

Robertson worked with Scorsese again on his next film, The King of Comedy , and is credited in the film's opening credits for "Music Production". The song was written in tribute to "Cowboy" Dan Johnson, an assistant of Scorsese's who had recently died. A soundtrack album for the film was released by Warner Bros. Robertson began work on his first solo album, Robbie Robertson , in July after signing to Geffen Records.

Robertson chose fellow Canadian Daniel Lanois to produce the album. Robertson wrote one track, "Fallen Angel", in honor of Richard Manuel, [ ] after his death in March Robertson had his single largest hit in the UK with " Somewhere Down the Crazy River ", which features his spoken word verses contrasted with singing in the choruses.

Storyville was released on September 30, Robertson co-produced the track "The Best of Everything", which was originally intended for the film The King of Comedy but instead was included on the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Southern Accents. In , Robertson appeared as a guest on the album Reconciled by the Call , playing guitar on the track "The Morning".

Also in , Robertson was brought on as creative consultant for Hail! Rock 'n' Roll , a feature film saluting Chuck Berry. One of the songs they co-wrote, "Nobody's Child", was released on McKee's self-titled debut album in In , Robertson appeared as a guest on the Ryuichi Sakamoto album Beauty , playing guitar on the song "Romance".

He also contributed to the world music video and album production One World One Voice. Robertson set about augmenting Orbison's basic vocal track with new arrangements and instrumentation, with the intent of making it sound like the arrangements were there from the beginning instead of later additions. In , Robertson returned to his roots, forming a First Nations group called the Red Road Ensemble for Music for the Native Americans , a collection of songs that accompanied a television documentary series produced by TBS.

The Battle of Wounded Knee and the near-extinction of the bison are outlined in the song "Ghost Dance". He headlined the festival of Indigenous musicians and portions appeared in a PBS documentary. On Contact from the Underworld of Redboy , Robertson departed from his typical production style and delved deep into a mix of rock, native, and electronic music.

Through the songs on the album, he took a close look at native traditions like Peyote healing of the Native American Church. The racial epithet in the album's title comes from an experience Robertson had where some bullies referred to him as "Red Boy" while he was playing with his cousins. It debuted at No. He teamed with painter and photographer Richard Prince to produce a limited collector's edition.

The 2, LP-sized boxes came with an art book, a numbered set of five lithographs including pieces by Prince and photographer Anton Corbijn , a set of original tarot cards, the original tracks, and ten bonuses. Released on September 20, , Sinematic was Robertson's sixth solo album. In , as executive soundtrack producer, Robertson heard a demo of " Change the World " and sent it to Clapton as a suggestion for the soundtrack of Phenomenon , starring John Travolta.

Babyface produced the track. Robertson, who persuaded Nelly Furtado to sign with the company, was actively involved with film projects and developing new artist talent, including signings of A. In , he contributed the song "Shine Your Light" to the Ladder 49 soundtrack. In , Robertson was executive producer of the definitive box set for the Band, entitled A Musical History.

Robertson married his girlfriend of four years, Canadian entrepreneur, restaurateur, and Top Chef Canada judge Janet Zuccarini, on March 12, , which was shared on her Instagram account. Robertson was a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. Robertson died in Los Angeles on August 9, , at the age of 80, after a year-long battle with prostate cancer.

His manager, Jared Levine, reported that Robertson "was surrounded by his family at the time of his death," including both Janet Zuccarini and Dominique Robertson, and asked for donations to the Six Nations of the Grand River in lieu of flowers. At the commencement ceremonies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario , Robertson delivered an address to the graduating class and was awarded an honorary degree by the university.

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Biography of robertson

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April 1, Vintage Canada. Retrieved September 20, Toronto: ECW Press. Retrieved February 18, Davies and his wife returned to Canada to become the editor of the political magazine Saturday Live. They had three daughters during their marriage. Over the course of his career, Davies became world-renowned for both his fiction and non-fiction material.