The first time I ever heard this song was when I went to see Easy Rider in '69. It hooked me. Rest in Peace Robbie Robertson.

Possibly the greatest song ever written. Great story, great music, fun to listen to and fun to play! Perfection imho.

What a huge talent. The ultimate cool guy !! RIP Robbie Robertson.

The solo album Robbie Robertson from 1987 I can recommend. Fallen Angel is the first track with Peter Gabriel on vocals. Also is there the hit single Showdown At Big Sky. RIP Robbie Robertson.

This song just popped into my head this morning and I'm glad it did. ❤

Thank you, great clip

Great song and video!

The greatest version of this song is on the Last Waltz concert it has always blown me away!!

My first single, bought when I was 12….

Brilliant people don't realize how brilliant they really are. He's into Luis Bunuel at a young age and I, as an old man, have never even heard of him. That's about the moment my brain exploded.

Today, after all these years, I learned it was Fanny, and not, as I had thought, Annie

Weer een fantastische reportage! Zou erg graag de gehele opname willen zien, sowieso nu Robbie overleden is…

Solid gold

Fallen Angel showed Robbie to be a great visionary, even outside of where everybody knew him in The Band. I grew up in Ontario just a few years after these guys, and as a budding keyboard player got to know some people who worked with them. I liked The Band but their nostalgia about the defeated South did not resonate with me. Decades later, I am astonished by the beauty of the songs in the Big Pink album. Rick Danko remains my favorite among The Band. He had this Canadian innocence when interpreting the stories behind the words of Robbie’s mystic songs. I understood “The Weight” for the first time in “The Last Waltz.” It is a story of existential sadness and loneliness, hidden in a cryptic lyric, its import overshadowed by the brilliance of their playing that distracted the listener from its underlying ennui. From their expression of defeat and loss in The Weight, we come to terms what awaits us all as we make our way through this vale of tears. Of course the Staples Singers got it right away! They got this song and put their heats into it. As did Rick playing bass and singing a verse, with that catch in his voice that pierced me to my core. It took me a few decades, but finally I came to understand The Band’s uniqueness, borne of the lost grandeur of the South. From their accountings of loss and suffering and shattered dreams, we can find some some context for our own inevitable journey to Nazareth.

I thought this was about Kathy Smith who went on to date Gordon Lightfoot who writes the song Sundown about Kathy Smith who meets back up The Band and when they did SNL she meets John Belushi and later is the person who shot him up with the heroin that would kill him…

Becoming huge by staying honest? I say yes.

Now it's only Garth God, rest them

🎵👍👍👍

even after listening to this video I still don't understand most of the lyrics but it just dont matter such a great song. Do you understand one hand clapping

we have garth...even hawk is dead.

No mention of easy rider?

Maar..... wie is Chester?

What happened to music and songwriters???? Now kids think Taylor Swift is a "musician." Someone share The Weight with a kid suffering as a Swiftie so they can listen to real music.

I still don't know who Fanny was.

That wig though...

YOU’RE BALD! -Elaine Marie Benes

So, its about nothing ? I dont like the song anymore 😂😂😂

So much propagation of misinformation it's Anny not Fanny

Dus eh, wie of wat is 'Fanny'? Waar gaat dit nummer nou over? Fragmentarische onzin.

rip