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(Vocal group, 1973–84)

This hard-driving Canadian rock band were assembled by former Guess Who members Randy Bachman (guitar, vocals) and Chad Allen (keyboards) with Robbie Bachman (drums) and Fred Turner (bass). Third brother Tim Bachman soon replaced Allan and the band’s commercial breakthrough came with Bachman-Turner Overdrive II (1974) and the US hit ‘Takin’ Care Of Business’. In Britain, they are best remembered for the 1975 single ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’.

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Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

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