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Robbie Robertson has died

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It would be nice if the post title would include the article title, I didn't know who was Robbie Robertson, what they did, and why it might be relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Robbie Robertson, Guitarist and Songwriter With the Band, Dies at 80"

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post #9

It would be nice if the post title would include the article title, I didn't know who was Robbie Robertson, what they did, and why it might be relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You mean like this perhaps:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072982

The HN software tries to "auto-correct" and so "The Band" becomes "the Band". Incorrect.

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Great quote: Speaking of the Band in the 2020 documentary "Once Were Brothers," Bruce Springsteen said, "It's like you've never heard them before and like they'd always been there."

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post #15

Great quote: Speaking of the Band in the 2020 documentary "Once Were Brothers," Bruce Springsteen said, "It's like you've never heard them before and like they'd always been there."

Similarly, this was a great line from the LA Times obituary for Robertson:

>As the Band’s chief songwriter and grand conceptualist, Robertson turned old American folklore into modern myths, a knack that gave a timeless quality to such songs as “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”; it was as if he had unearthed the songs, not written them.

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post #9

It would be nice if the post title would include the article title, I didn't know who was Robbie Robertson, what they did, and why it might be relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You mean like this perhaps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072982 The HN software tries to "auto-correct" and so "The Band" becomes "the Band". Incorrect.

You can edit HN titles after submitting them, and it won't auto-correct when editing.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like this perhaps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072982 The HN software tries to "auto-correct" and so "The Band" becomes "the Band". Incorrect.

You can edit HN titles after submitting them, and it won't auto-correct when editing.

If you catch it quick, yes. But it's quite easy to get locked out of editing soon after submission.

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Sad. If I had to choose the greatest song ever written, I would not hesitate to go with The Weight. The version [0] from The Waltz is especially brilliant. [0] - https://youtu.be/q-w9OclUnns

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