The long-awaited memoir from the late Robbie Robertson has finally received a release date.
It was reported earlier this year that The Band member’s book, Insomnia, would be releasing in November 2025. This has since been confirmed in a post to his social media accounts, with the story of “a remarkable creative friendship” available from November 11. The book was slated for release in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and now 2025, with the newest date suggesting November will be the month of release. Robertson’s memoir had been bumped from its proposed release date several times, though it seems the November 2025 date is firm.
A description of the book reads: “For four decades, Robbie Robertson produced music for Martin Scorsese’s films, a relationship that began when Robertson convinced Scorsese to direct The Last Waltz, the iconic film of the Band’s farewell performance at the Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving 1976.
The closing of the Band’s story with that landmark concert thrust Robertson into a new and uncertain world. With his relationship with his bandmates deteriorating and his marriage collapsing, Robertson arrived on Scorsese’s Beverly Hills doorstep only to find his friend in similar straits. Before the night was out, Scorsese had invited him to move in.
“Both men, already culture-transforming stars before the age of thirty-five, stood at a createive precipice, searching for the beginning of a new phase of life and work. As their friendship deepened into a career-altering collaboration, their shared journey would take them around the world and down the rabbit hole of American culture in the long hangover of the seventies.
“Buffeted on either side by temptation and paranoia, veering closer to self-destruction than either wanted to admit, together they had devoted themselves to a partnership defined by equal parts admiration and ambition.
“With a cast of characters featuring Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Federico Fellini, Sophia Loren, Sam Fuller, Liza Minelli, Tuesday Weld, and many more, Insomnia is an intimate portrait of a remarkable creative friendship between two titans of American arts, one that would explore the outer limits of excess and experience before returning to tell the tale.”
A post on Twitter to Robertson’s account reads: “For four decades, Robbie Robertson produced music for Martin Scorsese’s movies, and now the story will be told in a book about the intimate portrait of a remarkable creative friendship between two titans of American arts. INSOMNIA is on sale 11/11/25.” Robertson’s previous memoir, Testimony, went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
