The Guess Who’s “American Woman” hit #1 50 years ago. Randy Bachman explains how the whole thing was an accident.

May 10, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

[This is from a Zoom interview for Global News in which I participated this past week. -AC]

The era of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a particularly bleak one in terms of the music industry, but that hasn’t stopped Canadian rock legends The Guess Who from celebrating the anniversary of one of their biggest accomplishments.

Fifty years ago this Saturday, on May 9, 1970, not only did their song American Woman hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, it became the first-ever Canadian rock track to do so — marking a musical milestone in the history of our nation

Read more here. And here’s the full Zoom interview.

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