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Canadian drummer Robbie Bachman, a founding member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died. He changed into 69.
His brother and bandmate Randy Bachman took to Twitter to procure the announcement. “But every other unhappy departure. The pounding beat of BTO, my minute brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad, & brother Gary on the opposite facet,” Randy begins. “Presumably Jeff Beck wants a drummer! He changed into an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the realm collectively.” No reason behind death for Robbie Bachman changed into shared by his brother.
The Bachman brothers grew up in Winnepeg and played music unswerving thru their childhood. Robbie and Randy first labored collectively in a community called Courageous Belt, which Randy founded within the ’70s after leaving the Wager Who. The three Bachman brothers (Robbie, Randy, Tim) alongside side Fred Turner formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973. The band equipped thousands and thousands of recordsdata over the course of the next three years. “You Ain’t Viewed Nothin’ But” topped the charts, while the band’s other hits integrated “Takin’ Care of Enterprise,” “Hi there You,” and “Roll On Down the Toll road.”
Randy Bachman left the community within the mid ’70s and gave the final contributors permission to name themselves BTO. As BTO, Robbie Bachman and others persevered to tour and listing unswerving thru the ’70s till their popularity waned and moreover they within the rupture broke up in 1980.
Sporadic reunions unswerving thru the next decades had been followed by good battles between Randy and Robbie over royalties and rights to the band’s name. Bachman-Turner Overdrive changed into inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Popularity in 2014.
Bachman died on the identical day as legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, who passed away from bacterial meningitis. Jeff Beck changed into inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Popularity twice, once for his work with the Yardbirds and the next time for his solo work.