Robbie Robertson Writing a Memoir

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Robbie Robertson has signed a contract to pen his first memoir. The as-yet untitled book will published by Crown Publishers and the Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group in print and digital formats, but no publication date has been set.

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Robertson has promised to write in detail about his childhood, his early career in music, the formation of the Band and his collaborations with Bob Dylan, including his participation in Dylan's notorious "electric" tour in 1966. Robertson will also write about the making of the Band's classic album Music From Big Pink and the making of the concert film The Last Waltz with Martin Scorcese.

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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