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THE LAST WALTZ was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group the Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The event was advertised as the Band's "farewell concert appearance," and the concert saw the Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield,
Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Neil Diamond, Bobby Charles, The Staple Singers, and Eric Clapton. The musical director for the concert was the Band's original record producer, John Simon.
The event was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary of the same name, released in 1978. Jonathan Taplin, who was the Band's tour manager from 1969 to 1972 and later produced Scorsese's film Mean Streets, suggested that Scorsese would be the ideal director for the project and introduced Robbie Robertson and Scorsese. Taplin served as executive producer. The film features concert performances, intermittent song renditions shot on a studio soundstage, and interviews by Scorsese with members
of the Band.
A triple-LP soundtrack recording, produced by Simon and Rob Fraboni, was issued in 1978. The film was released on DVD in 2002 as was a four-CD box set of the concert and related studio recordings.
Below: "The Last Waltz": invitation (front and back)
to the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco,
for dinner and concert, on 25 November 1976:
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Below: "The Last Waltz" postcards. Collection Alan Fraser.
 front |
 back: movie playdates |
 front |
 back: May 5/7 radio airing |
 Japan, 1978 2 Sided Japanese cinema handbill |
 Japan, 1978 Cine Libre Ikebukuro, 2 Sided flyer for Japanese film weeks from Saturday 29 April until Friday 16 Jun |
 Germany Collection Jürgen Wasser |
 same, back |
 Spain, flyer |
 same, back |
 Collection Jürgen Wasser |
 Collection Jürgen Wasser |
 Spain, Collection Jürgen Wasser |
 Spain, Collection Jürgen Wasser |
 Spain, Collection Jürgen Wasser |
 Press photos, Thank you to Jürgen Wasser (0824] |
United Artists pressbook, 1978, 10 pages |
 Warner Bros, USA pressbook, 1978, set of photos |
 French press-kit for the 1978 Cannes Festival, 65 pages |
 Spain, 2 pages |
 Spain, 8 pages |
 Spain, 1978 press book, 12 pages on textured paper |
Mexico, set of eight lobby cards
 French promo, cardboard, front |
 same, back |
 1978 Exhibitor's Campaign book, large format (25x33cm), three-fold (6 sides) |
 Neuer Filmkurier #236, july 1978, Germany/Austria. This film programme was sold in film theaters before the start of the performance; 12 pages, Dylan mentioned on 7. Published for Austria and Germany by 'Neues Filmprogramm', Wien (Vienna, Austria) and München (Munich, Germany) |
 Cinema film programme, Japan. Programme for the 13 & 14 July 1978 cinema film. 22 Pages including several stage photos with Bob |
 Very similar to the previous one, with some extra text (Miyukiza, in Japanese) on the front cover. This is the name of the actual cinema where the film was being sold, so it was only available from this cinema; the programmes without any cinema name were available in most cinemas around the country. Thank you to Wil Gilen for the scans and information |
Below: Japan, unknown year, Kirin Lager Club flyer (front and back).
Kirin Lager is a Japanese Beer. Thank you to Jürgen Wasser. 
 Japan 1988, 2 sided 26x18cm cinema release flyer |
 Japan 1988, 10th Anniversary, cinema programme, very limited number of cinemas. Large size (41x15cm), 16 pages in English and Japanese. Two pages on Bob Dylan. |
Below: 2002 US press kit for the release of the CD and DVD (front, back, inside):
