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The music documentary Takin’ Care of Business took care of business at the inaugural Round Top Film Festival in Texas.

The film about Canadian rock musician Randy Bachman – founder of the bands The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive – earned the Audience Award at the debut event in the small town 75 miles east of Austin. The feature directed by Tyler Measom explores how Bachman searched for decades for a precious musical instrument that was stolen from him – his beloved 1957 Gretsch 6120 guitar on which he wrote the hits “American Woman,” “Takin’ Care of Business,” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.”

“We are so honored to receive the Audience Award from the Round Top Film Festival!” said Russell Wayne Groves, producer of Takin’ Care of Business. “From the incredible festival founders, Shanna and Skylar Schanen, all the way to the amazing volunteers who kept things running smoothly, we are just humbled...

Guitarist Randy Bachman of the ’70s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive is the focus of the 2024 documentary Takin’ Care of Business. The Canadian band scored success with hits including “Takin’ Care of Business,” “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” “Let It Ride,” and “Roll On Down the Highway,” and hit #1 on the charts with their 1974 album Not Fragile.

Bachman left the band, which originally consisted of bassist Fred Turner, drummer Robbie Bachman, and guitarist Blair Thornton, in 1977. Since then, there have been multiple iterations of the group. In 2009, Randy Bachman and Fred Turner formed Bachman & Turner, and in the fall of 2023, Bachman-Turner Overdrive reunited for a tour.

Writer/director Tyler Measom’s new documentary, which will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, focuses on Randy Bachman. Randy, along with Tal Bachman, KoKo Bachman, Lorelei Bachman, Bannatyne Bachman Matson, Takeshi Kaneda, and William Long, are featured in the behind-the-scenes look at the rocker’s life.

The Guess Who’s founding singer, Burton Cummings, and guitarist Randy Bachman have settled their lawsuit with fellow original members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson and acquired the trademark to their former band’s name, ending a bitter dispute over the legacy of one of Canada’s most famed classic rock acts.

The settlement comes nearly a year after Cummings and Bachman first sued Kale, Peterson, and the band — which they called a “cover band” — over false advertising claims. Cummings and Bachman alleged in their lawsuit last October that the...

Heart have been forced to postpone all of their upcoming tour dates in 2024 after Ann Wilson recently underwent a medical procedure to remove “something that, as it turns out, was cancerous.”

“The operation was successful & I’m feeling great but my doctors are now advising me to undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy & I’ve decided to do it,” Wilson explained in a statement. “And so my doctors are instructing me to take the rest of the year away from the stage in order to fully recover.”

“Please know that I absolutely plan to be back on stage in 2025,” Wilson added. “My team is getting those details sorted & we’ll let you know the plan as soon as we can.”

Wilson did not disclose the type of cancer she has. She concluded her statement by saying, “Respectfully, this is the last public statement I’d like to make on the matter.

Heart have canceled the upcoming European leg of their “Royal Flush Tour” in order for vocalist Ann Wilson to undergo a “time-sensitive but routine medical procedure.”

“We regret to inform you that all upcoming Heart performances in Europe are canceled,” the band revealed in a statement. “In late May, Ann Wilson will undergo a time-sensitive but routine medical procedure for which the minimum recovery time is six weeks. Heart deeply regrets this unfortunate circumstance and hopes to return to Europe soon. Refunds will be available at point of purchase.”

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In a separate statement, Wilson added, “I’m okay! Please don’t worry. I do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. It’s certainly an inconvenience for me.”

The band just wrapped up the first North American leg of their 2024 reunion tour this past Friday, with the European run originally slated for June 20th through mid-July.

For the past six months, Burton Cummings, founding singer and songwriter of classic rock group the Guess Who, has been in a bitter legal dispute to wrest control of his old band’s legacy. Now he’s adopting an aggressive and relatively unheard of approach to make that happen: giving up on certain royalties so the band can’t play his songs.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, Cummings and original Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman sued the current iteration of the Guess Who (as well as the band’s original...

Check out Heart’s live performance during their appearance on “The Howard Stern Show” on Wednesday, April 10. Listen to their conversation with Howard Stern and full set on Howard 100 on the SiriusXM app and radios.

The legendary band featuring Nancy Wilson and Ann Wilson just announced 30 more dates for their Royal Flush Tour 2024. The tour will be their first in five years and kick off on April 20 in Greenville, Sc, before heading to Europe this June and July and returning to the U.S. this summer to join forces with Def Leppard and Journey for three epic stadium shows in Cleveland, Toronto, and Boston. See the dates below and buy tickets here.

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Get ready to rock with Heart as they’ve added new dates to their Royal Flush Tour 2024 — and SiriusXM listeners get special access to presale tickets.

Heart is extending their highly-anticipated return to the road after a five-year hiatus with 30 additional dates across North America this fall, including brand-new stops in San Francisco, Kansas City, Houston, Calgary, Vancouver, and more. The band returns to the road starting April 20 in Greenville, Sc, touring Europe this June and July, before returning to the States to join forces with Def Leppard and Journey for three epic stadium shows in Cleveland, Toronto and Boston this summer. The tour concludes in Las Vegas on December 15.

Heart will be joined by iconic mega bands Cheap Trick, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive (Bto) featuring Randy Bachman on the Royal Flush Tour 2024 for select dates.

The band will also be on “The Howard Stern Show,...

Heart have added a fall North American leg to their 2024 reunion tour, adding more than 30 shows to their extensive itinerary. Cheap Trick will be on board for most dates, with Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening or Randy Bachman’s Bto filling the support slot at select shows.

The new run of shows on Heart’s “Royal Flush Tour” kicks off September 26th in San Francisco and wraps up December 15th in Las Vegas. Along the way, Heart will make stops in Los Angeles, Houston, New York City (Madison Square Garden), San Diego, and many more cities.

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An artist pre-sale for the new dates begins Wednesday (April 3rd) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Dreams via Ticketmaster, followed by Ticketmaster’s own presale on Thursday (April 4th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Riff. A general sale begins Friday (April 5th) at 10 a.

R.E.M., Steely Dan, Timbaland, and songwriters Dean Pitchford (“Footloose”) and Hillary Lindsey (“Jesus Take the Wheel”) are this year’s inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced today.

The 2024 induction ceremony and Awards Gala is set for Thursday, June 13, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Additional special award honorees will be announced soon.

“I’ve said it before, but the music industry does not exist without songwriters delivering great songs first,” Shof Chairman Nile Rodgers said in a statement that this year’s inductees represent “not just iconic songs but also diversity and unity across genres, ethnicity and gender.” He added that this year’s songwriters “have enriched our lives and literally enriched music and the lives of billions of listeners all over the world.”

In today’s announcement, the Hall of Fame listed key songs in the inductees’ catalogs:

Hillary Lindsey:

Jesus Take...

Steely Dan, Blondie, Public Enemy, R.E.M, Timbaland and the man who wrote bubblegum classics “Build Me Up Buttercup” and “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” are among the nominees for the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Also included on the roster of nominees are, among others, Bread frontman David Gates, Tracy Chapman, the Guess Who’s Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings, Kenny Loggins, Heart and Roger Nichols, who composed the music for such Carpenters hits as “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”

See the complete list of nominees below.

According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first significant commercial release of a song. Eligible voting members will have until midnight Et on December 27, 2023 to turn in ballots, with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from performing songwriter categories.

Guess Who founding members Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman have sued fellow original members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson as well as the band itself, accusing them of misleading fans to believe that the current iteration of the group — which Bachman and Cummings have labeled as “little more than a cover band” — is the original Guess Who.

In a federal suit filed in Los Angeles on Monday and obtained by Rolling Stone, Bachman and Cummings allege that the current lineup — where Peterson is the only current member who was also...

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Elvis Presley’s motto, “Taking Care of Business,” was inspired by a song written by a major classic rock star. The star in question was hugely inspired by the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The song “Takin’ Care of Business” battled an Elvis song for chart supremacy in the United States.

Elvis Presley‘s motto, “Taking Care of Business,” which inspired by a hit song from the 1970s called “Takin’ Care of Business.” The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll had a strong reaction to the tune when he heard it on the radio. Subsequently, one of the writers of the hit revealed why he never got to meet the “Hound Dog” singer.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s ‘Takin’ Care of Business’ inspired Elvis Presley

Randy Bachman founded both The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. During a 2022 interview with Loudersound, Bachman discussed the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s impact on him.

Tim Bachman, a founding guitarist and vocalist of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at the age of 71.

Bachman had been in hospice care after battling brain cancer, and his son announced his passing in a Facebook post. His death comes only a few months after the passing of his brother Robbie (Bto’s longtime drummer) in January.

Tim was one of the three Bachman brothers that helped form the classic rock group, originally under the name Brave Belt. He performed on Bto’s first two albums — Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1973) and Bachman-Turner Overdrive II (1973) — appearing on such hits as “Takin’ Care of Business” and “Let It Ride.”

He left the band in 1974 (replaced by Blair Thornton), citing a desire to spend more time with family, although his brothers claimed he was fired for violating the band’s policy of no alcohol or drugs on the road.

Tim eventually returned to Bto in 1984 following...

Tim Bachman, singer and guitarist with hard-driving Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, has died at age 71.

On Friday, the musician’s son, Ryder Bachman, shared the sad news via Facebook.

“My Dad passed this afternoon.,” he wrote. “Thank You Everyone for the kind words. Grateful I got to spend some time with him at the end. Grab yer loved ones and hug em close, ya never know how long you have.”

In a previous post, Ryder Bachman revealed that he’d received a call that the condition of his father, who was his hospice care, had taken a downward turn. “They told me to hurry, come say goodbye to him and pay my last respects, as he probably has minutes, hours, maaaaybe a day left- they don’t know,” he wrote. “He had some complications and they rushed him to the emergency unit and found out he has cancer riddled all throughout his brain…...

Robbie Bachman, younger brother of Randy Bachman and co-founder of the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, died at 69.

Randy Bachman shared news of the tragic loss on Twitter on Jan. 12.

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Another sad departure. The pounding beat behind Bto, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock 'n' roll machine and we rocked the world together. #Rip #littlebrother #family pic.twitter.com/XASj6CVXzA

— Randy Bachman (@RandysVinylTap) January 13, 2023

Randy praised his brother with deservedly glowing words.

“He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together.”

Randy and Robbie co-founded Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973 with bassist Fred Turner and guitarist Tim Bachman. Robbie was credited with designing the band’s logo, appearing for the first...

Robbie Bachman, the drummer and co-founder of the hit-making 1970s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died. He was 69.

His death was announced by brother and bandmate, the guitarist and singer Randy Bachman. A cause of death was not immediately available.

“Another sad departure,” Randy Bachman tweeted last night. “The pounding beat behind Bto, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together.”

Playing the drums since childhood, Robin Peter Bachman was recruited at age 18 by his big brother Randy, who had already found international success in the band The Guess Who. After Randy left that group in 1970, he formed a short-lived group called Brave Belt, with 18-year-old Robbie on drums.

Brave Belt, with other members including bassist/singer Fred Turner and a third Bachman brother,...

Robbie Bachman, the drummer for Bachman–Turner Overdrive who powered the band’s biggest hits including “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” and “Takin’ Care of Business,” has died. He was 69.

Randy Bachman, the drummer’s brother and bandmate, confirmed the news on Twitter Thursday night. “Another sad departure,” he wrote. “The pounding beat behind Bto, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together.

Randy Bachman says he’s taking his business elsewhere after leadership at CBC Radio told him they’re cancelling his “Vinyl Tap” music show. The 77-year-old Winnipeg native says his long-running Saturday night program has become a casualty of CBC’s latest programming changes. Related: Neil Young Talks Randy Bachman’s Influence In Clip From ‘Bachman’ Documentary Bachman will host a farewell special...

Last week, we shared Rick Livingstone’s memories of his time singing lead in the 1990 supergroup the Best alongside John Entwistle, Joe Walsh, Keith Emerson, and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. Their set mixed songs by the Who, the Eagles, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, though the group dissolved after just four gigs in Japan and one in Hawaii. But thanks to a professionally filmed show at the Yokohama Arena and the magic of YouTube, they’ve had a long afterlife.

Reunions by the Eagles, Elp, and...

It’s been three decades since Ringo Starr founded his All Starr supergroup and took the stage with some of rock and roll’s biggest luminaries, creating an exceptional legacy of performances of some of the greatest hits of all time culled from Starr’s extraordinary catalog as a solo artist and as Beatle, as well as the All Starr Band members’ substantive songbook.

In celebration of this milestone, and just in time for the holiday season, a new limited-edition retrospective hardcover book titled “Ringo Rocks: 30 Years Of The All Starrs,” will be sold online exclusively beginning Wednesday, December 16 at juliensauctions.com.

This not to be missed commemorative photo memoir features some never-before-seen photos of the All Starr Band’s 30 record-setting years in the spotlight and life on the road, compiled by Henry Diltz and Jill Jarrett (who have followed Ringo Starr’s All Starr career since 1989), as well as...

The documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, directed by Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni, is an intimate look at a prolific singer-songwriter who enriches and is enriched by the history of Canada. Most of the world knows Lightfoot as the singer with the recognizable baritone who put out hits like “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” and “Early Mornin’ Rain.” But in his native country, he is a national treasure. Before international fame, in 1967, he actually wrote and performed a piece called “The Tale of Canada” for the country’s 100th anniversary. After worldwide renown, he mined contemporary local history with the “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

Lightfoot caught the performance bug early. He was five when he debuted his rendition of “I’m A Little Teapot” at St. Paul’s United Church Sunday School in Orillia. He would go on to study composition, do...

Guitarist Jimmy Capps, a member of the Musicians Hall of Fame who played on such timeless country songs as Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” and George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning,” has died at 81. Capps was also a member of the Grand Ole Opry, playing lead guitar in the house band. A rep for the Opry confirmed his death.

Born May 25th, 1939, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Capps began playing guitar when he was 12. In 1958, he auditioned for the Louvin Brothers’ band and was ultimately...

Following this week’s historic all-Canadian special, Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble, it was announced today that more than $6 million has been raised to date to provide immediate support to Food Banks Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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With donations still being tallied, more than 140,000 individuals were inspired and reached out to support the good works by local food banks. Canadians can continue to donate to Food Banks Canada by texting Covid to 30333 or visiting FoodBanksCanada.ca/StrongerTogether.

The biggest multi-platform broadcast ever is now the most-watched (non-sports) Canadian broadcast on record. Nearly one in three Canadians watched some part of the broadcast on 44 television networks, reaching 11.5 million viewers overall. Audiences peaked at more than 6.1 million viewers during the world premiere of ArtistsCAN’s multi-artist “Lean on Me” charity single. Overall, the 90-minute special has a preliminary overnight audience of...

Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings will celebrate the music of the Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and more on their first United States tour together in 10 years.

The Together Again, Live in Concert trek will kick off June 13th at the Rose Music Center at the Heights in Huber Heights, Ohio, and wrap June 21st at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota. A previously announced Canadian trek will follow through the rest of June and July.

Tickets for the U.S. shows will go on sale on March 13th.

Long before anybody had heard of Neil Young and Randy Bachman, they were two teenagers growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and trying their best to make their mark on the tiny local music scene. Bachman found success first when his group the Silvertones (who would eventually morph into the Guess Who) became the most popular band on the teen circuit and drew large crowds to their shows at dances and community centers. Young, whose own group the Squires made less of an impact, revered Bachman and learned much about guitar simply by watching him play.

Randy Bachman has had a surprising career, one of the rare acts to score two Number One singles with two different bands: “American Woman” with the Guess Who and “Takin’ Care of Business” with Bachman-Turner Overdrive. A new documentary, Bachman, written and directed by John Barnard (The Sheepdogs Have At It, Menorca) explores his life, from his childhood in Winnipeg, Canada to his conversion to Mormonism to his touring life today at age 75. The movie now has a release date; Filmrise will release Bachman March 26th on iTunes, Prime Video,...

Ringo Starr recently announced the details of his 30th anniversary tour with the All Starr Band, which will feature Men At Work’s Colin Hay, Santana’s Gregg Rolie, Toto’s Steve Lukather and Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart. “It’s become what I do — I go on tour,” Starr recently told Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield. “So we’re starting in Japan in March, then in the summer we do America. I’ve got plenty of time so I love to play. And of course, being the drummer,...

They were a long way from Times Square and the Ed Sullivan Theatre, but Thursday night in Las Vegas, David Letterman and Paul Shaffer were back sharing a stage.

This time, Letterman was supporting his long-time band leader as Shaffer opened a club series with his band the Shaf-Shifters at the Caesar’s Palace lounge Cleopatra’s Barge. This segment of the Shaffer nightclub stand continues through Saturday night, with dates also scheduled Oct. 11-13 and Nov. 29 to Dec. 1.

The reunion marks the first time the two have performed together since the end of Late Night in May 2015.

About a half-hour into his set, Shaffer called Letterman up to the stage, announcing, “This is a show-business friendship of the highest order. It actually goes beyond a show-business friendship. It goes into actual friendship.”

Letterman warmed up with an old casino joke, then recalled that Shaffer told him he always wanted to play Vegas.

Thursday was a night of major star power inside the tiny, 180-person-capacity Cleopatra’s Barge at Caesars Palace as legendary Late Show With David Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer opened the latest installment of his monthly Las Vegas residency. The 90-minute-plus Paul Shaffer's The Shaf-Shifters lounge show welcomed a roster of special guests that included Letterman, Shaffer’s former boss, who did 15 minutes of stand-up; Kenny Loggins, on a night off from his own headlining gig at the Wynn this week; and Randy Bachman of Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive.

“This is show business friendship of the highest ...

The most emotionally revealing segment in John Barnard's documentary about Randy Bachman doesn't involve any of the Canadian rock god's friends, family or musical collaborators. Rather, it involves what everyone seems to agree is Bachman's closest relationship, that with his guitars. Leading us on a guided tour of a warehouse containing his collection of a seemingly endless number of the musical instruments, Bachman beams at them with pride and joy, lovingly handling them as if they were newborn babes. It's a charming sequence. Too bad, then, that Bachman, which received its world premiere at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, otherwise fails...

New titles also include African elephant and rhino genocide doc The Last Animals.

Distributor Kew Media Group has filled out its slate ahead of next month’s Cannes Film Festival and acquired worldwide sales rights to six new titles. The films will be making their festival market debut at the Marche du Film.

The titles include Nothing Like A Dame, a conversation piece between four renowned British actresses – Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Playwright and Maggie Smith. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and produced by Sally Angel and Karen Steyn, the film sees the four ladies discuss their careers...

Kew Media Group has picked up international rights to six non-fiction films for Cannes including documentary Nothing Like A Dame, about the lives and careers of Brit actresses Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and produced by Sally Angel (Night Will Fall) and Karen Steyn (Looking For Audrey), executive producers are Sally Angel and Debbie Manners for Field Day and Anthony Wall for the BBC.

Also new to the roster is Sam Rockwell-narrated One Million American Dreams, a history of the final resting place of over one million of New York’s unclaimed dead directed by Brendan J. Byrne (Bobby Sands: 66 Days); The Last Animals, an exposé on the crisis of the killing of African elephants and rhinos; Dealt, winner of the SXSW Audience Award for best documentary feature, about Richard Turner, one of the world’s great card...

A Peterborough man can say You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet after a chance meeting with Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman while in Omemee, Ont., on Friday before the Neil Young concert. Barry Killen was in Omemee to shoot some footage for a short documentary about Young’s performance. That’s when he found a Blackberry cellphone near the […]...

Neil Young was inducted into the Canadian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony at Massey Hall in Toronto over the weekend. The legendary Canadian-born musician was introduced by singer Randy Bachman. Young gave a long speech, thanking the Hall of Fame and his fans over the years. “I’m terribly proud to be Canadian,” he said. “I […]...

The United States is “my country, right or wrong,” of course, and I consider myself a patriotic person, but I’ve never felt that patriotism meant blind fealty to the idea of America’s rightful dominance over global politics or culture, and certainly not to its alleged preferred status on God’s short list of favored nations, or that allegiance to said country was a license to justify or rationalize every instance of misguided, foolish, narrow-minded domestic or foreign policy.

In 2012, when this piece was first posted, it seemed like a good moment to throw the country’s history and contradictions into some sort of quick relief, and the most expedient way of doing that for me was to look at the way the United States (and the philosophies at its core) were reflected in the movies, and not just the ones which approached the country head-on as a subject.

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If you’re a music lover, there’s no excuse for you not to have Sirius-xm Satellite Radio (unless you’re broke) – the service, and its brethren are basically a necessity. Not only do you get radio programs hosted by legends like Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, Randy Bachman, and Nancy Sinatra, but there’s also a radio station for every musical niche in existence.

One of the best of those “niche stations” is Deep Tracks, which takes its programming from non-single album tracks, B-sides, and other obscure songs by famous artists. While we were dancing to no. 1 hits by legendary bands like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones, other good songs faded into the background, and crucially, Deep Tracks is helping music lovers to discover these classic tunes.

As music buffs, we should all feel a responsibility to help introduce fellow fans to our own musical discoveries,...

Washington, Jan 30: The Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville has inducted 12 new honorees across the genres, including bluesman Buddy Guy, British rock guitarist Peter Frampton and pedal steel player and country singer Barbara Mandrell.

This marked the first time that members had been inducted into the hall of fame since 2009 as the hall's previous location had closed in 2010 and their new permanent space inside the Municipal Auditorium opened in 2013, CBS News reported.

Also inducted were Randy Bachman from The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive, country musician Jimmy Capps, bass guitarist Will Lee, rhythm guitarist.

Chilliwack, B.C. - A co-founder of iconic Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive had a sexual relationship with a girl between the age of 11 and 14, a B.C. judge was told this week.

“I felt the relationship was very sick,” Stacy Bohun, 24, recalled during court testimony in B.C. Supreme Court, where Tim Bachman is on trial for sex assault, sexual interference of a person under 14 and sexual touching of a young person.

“He would get me to sit on his lap and kiss him,” she added. “One time he tried to French kiss me ... It was just a lot of weird, inappropriate things.”

A ban on publication was imposed in 2010 on the name of Bachman to shield the identity of the complainant. But the bans on both Bachman and Bohun were lifted Wednesday by Justice Neill Brown after an application by a reporter with The Canadian Press.

The request...

Every weeknight for 30 straight years now, a Thunder Bay-raised musician named Paul Shaffer has performed for, bantered with, and provided a foil to legendary talk-show host David Letterman. That's Shaffer's job, and it's a good one -- but he's a Canadian treasure for more than his presence on American TV.

From his early years in Toronto as musical director of the legendary production of Godspell (with its infamous cast of future Sctv and SNLers) and subsequent stint with the original cast Saturday Night Live, to writing "It's Raining Men," recording with Yoko Ono, working on the '96 Olympics and that unprecedented partnership with Letterman, Shaffer has certainly had, as he tells Huffington Post, "the best seat in the house all these years."

Before hosting this Sunday's Canada's Walk of Fame Awards, October 14 on Global at 8 p.m. -- he got his own star back in 2006, two years before receiving the...

Judging from the steady flow of acceptance speech tears, receiving a star on Canada's Walk of Fame is an emotional day for many Canadians. It was especially hard for Paul Hartmann, brother of the late Canadian actor-comedian Phil Hartman.

On Saturday afternoon, Paul was accepting the national honour on behalf of Phil (who dropped the extra "n" for his stage name). During a ceremony held at Toronto's Ed Mirvish Theatre, the beloved Ontario-born comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" and "The Simpsons" star was presented with the Cineplex Legends Award, a posthumous honour that in previous years has gone to other notable Canadian luminaries such as Mordecai Richler and Raymond Burr.

Part of a four-day festival, the annual Walk of Fame inductions honour Canadian achievement in a variety of fields, in a star-studded celebration of the country's best and brightest. And this year, Hartman -- who died tragically in 1998 --...

TORONTO -- The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Tuesday named veteran musicians Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings and Canada's national anthem, O Canada, as among its latest inductees. In all, 22 songs and seven songwriters are to be welcomed into the Canadian songwriters pantheon during a Feb. 8 salute. They include two Winnipeg-born members of The Guess Who, Bachman and Cummings, whose song credits include Let It Ride and American Woman. Other pioneer songwriter inductees include Shelton Brooks, a ragtime piano player who wrote jazz standards like Some of These Days in 1910, and two Al Jolson hits, You Ain't Talkin' to Me and Honey Gal. Also to be inducted are Quebec songwriters Claude Leveillee, whose lyrics have been sung by Edith Piaf, Julie Arel and Andre Gagnon, and singer-songwriter Raymond Levesque, best known for his 1956 hit "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour."...