The concert was a very elaborate affair, 5,000 tickets to the show were sold.
It started at 5:00 p.m. when everyone was served turkey dinners, as it was Thanksgiving Day.
This was followed by ballroom dancing before the show started at 9:00 pm.
The Band played with superb ease, and every song revealed The Band and each guest that sang on it in its best light.
The concert went on until the early hours of the morning, with The Band playing their final encore covering Marvin Gaye's 'Don't Do It' and The Band played their final note where every member was present.
After the concert was finished, and was recorded and shot with Martin Scorsese (director of Goodfellas, The Departed, Shutter Island) directing and controlling the cameras, it had to be edited and pieced together with interviews between Martin Scorsese and The Band, and fashioned into a film.
The movie was released in 1978, two years after the concert. The film has been hailed critically, listed among the greatest rock films. Chicago Tribune film critic George Wilmington calls it 'the greatest rock concert movie ever made – and maybe the best rock movie, period.'
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