Bachman-Turner Overdrive are the latest musicians to be added to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame – Randy Bachman and Fred Turner will be honoured at the Juno Awards on March 30th.
BTO, who are Winnipeg natives, have sold almost 30 million albums including their most recent 2013 release, a compilation set entitled “BachmanTurner Overdrive: 40th Anniversary” that also included four original unreleased tracks. Despite disbanding in 2005, Bachman-Turner Overdrive reunited in 2009 and have been going strong ever since. The recipients of three Juno Awards, including their first for Most Promising Group of the Year in 1974.
“They said it couldn’t be done – I did it again,” Bachman told The Canadian Press. “I started another band from the wilderness of Winnipeg out of nothing – untrained musicians, musicians who weren’t in bands before except for Fred Turner, and somehow got to No. 1 album and No. 1 single and sold 20 million records, more than the Guess Who had at the time, in a three-year period span. So it was an unbelievable effort of concentration. To go back now and reflect on it and celebrate it, it’ll be fun and an honour for me. And for the other guys to come back and smile and give each other a hug and shake hands and go: ‘We really did rock the world. We really did.’”
Photo by Dan Harper/Bachman-Turner Overdrive
