The smiling visage of the late Richard Manuel that adorns the dust cover of Stephen T. Lewis' biography belies the sorrowful ...

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The trailblazing bandleader and songwriter reconfigured soul, rock, and psychedelic music throughout the ’60s and ’70s, ...