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  • The Guess Who
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  • Bachman–Turner_Overdrive
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  • Juno Award winners
  • Canadian hard rock musical groups
  • Musical groups from Winnipeg
  • Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees
  • Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners
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  • Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, MB.Founded by Chad Allan in 1958 and known variously as The Silvertones, Chad Allen and The Silvertones, or Al and the Silvertones, their first recordings were released in 1962 as Chad Allan and the Reflections and Bob Ashley & the Reflections. In 1963, they became Chad Allan & the Expressions, finally becoming The Guess Who in 1965. Initially breaking up in 1975, there have been various reunions and reconstituted versions touring and recording ever since.
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  • The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, the group also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including %22No Time%22, %22American Woman%22, %22These Eyes%22 and %22Share the Land%22. Several former members of The Guess Who, notably Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman (of Bachman–Turner Overdrive), have found considerable success outside the band. Formed as a garage rock/rhythm and blues group during the rise of British beat, their musical style primarily consisted of pop rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock and hard rock.The band was inducted into The Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2002, Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Donnie McDougall and Bill Wallace received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, for The Guess Who's contribution to popular music in Canada.
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  • Guess Who
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  • Canadian rock band
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  • The Guess Who
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  • RCA Records
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  • Rock
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