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The Guess Who originated in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1962, initially performing under various names including Chad Allan and the Reflections and Chad Allan and the Expressions. The band achieved their breakthrough when their single “Shakin’ All Over” was released anonymously in 1965, labeled simply as “Guess Who?” to intrigue listeners into believing it might be a famous group in disguise. The success of this marketing tactic led them to permanently adopt the name “The Guess Who,” marking their formal entry into mainstream music.

Throughout their prolific career, The Guess Who released a total of 11 studio albums from 1965 to 1975, alongside several live albums and numerous compilations. Their first major international success came with their album “Wheatfield Soul” in 1969, featuring the hit single “These Eyes,” which reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This track established their presence in the United States and paved the way for greater success.

The band continued their upward trajectory with their subsequent album, “Canned Wheat” (1969), producing hits such as “Laughing” and “Undun,” both of which solidified their reputation for crafting melodic rock songs with broad appeal. However, it was their 1970 album “American Woman” that delivered the band’s signature anthem of the same name. The song “American Woman” became their first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, accompanied by another major hit from the album, “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature,” which also reached number one on the charts.

In 1970, the band experienced a significant lineup change when guitarist Randy Bachman departed due to creative differences, eventually forming Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Despite this, The Guess Who maintained their popularity throughout the early 1970s with continued chart success, producing enduring hits such as “Share the Land,” “Hand Me Down World,” and “Clap for the Wolfman.” Their versatile songwriting, blending rock with touches of blues and folk, contributed significantly to their sustained relevance and fanbase loyalty.

Throughout their extensive career, The Guess Who received multiple recognitions for their contributions to music, including inductions into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1987 and Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2001. Their song “American Woman” was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, further cementing their cultural impact. Additionally, the band’s international acclaim is underscored by their considerable sales and the enduring popularity of their classic tracks, which continue to receive significant radio airplay worldwide.

Beyond music, The Guess Who has contributed to various charitable efforts and public engagements, leveraging their visibility to support community initiatives and national pride in Canada. Members of the band have participated in reunions and benefit concerts, reinforcing their legacy and continued resonance within both the Canadian and global music communities.

The Guess Who’s enduring appeal lies in their distinctive sound, skillful songwriting, and the universal themes present in their music. Their songs have stood the test of time, resonating across generations due to their lyrical depth, catchy melodies, and relatable storytelling. With a legacy marked by critical acclaim, chart-topping hits, and lasting cultural significance, The Guess Who remains a celebrated and influential fixture in rock history.

Complete List Of The Guess Who 10 Songs From A to Z

1. 8:15 – American Woman – 1970
2. 969 (The Oldest Man) – American Woman – 1970
3. 6 A.M. or Nearer – Canned Wheat – 1969
4. A Fool, a Fool, I Met a Fool – Flavours (2011 Remaster) – 1974
5. A Wednesday in Your Garden – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
6. Albert Flasher – So Long, Bannatyne (2010 Re-issue)/Live at the Paramount – 1971/1972
7. All Hashed Out – Artificial Paradise – 1973
8. All Right – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
9. American Woman – American Woman/Live at the Paramount/Together Again – 1970/1972/1984
10. And She’s Mine – It’s Time – 1966
11. Arrivederci Girl – Rockin’ – 1972
12. As – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
13. Attila’s Blues – Road Food – 1974
14. Baby Feelin’ – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
15. Baby’s Birthday – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection) – 1965
16. Back to the City – Rockin’ – 1972
17. Ballad of the Last Five Years – Road Food – 1974
18. Believe Me – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
19. Broken – So Long, Bannatyne (2010 Re-issue) – 1971
20. Bus Rider – Share the Land – 1970
21. Bye Bye Babe – Artificial Paradise – 1973
22. C’mon And Dance – Together Again – 1984
23. Cardboard Empire – #10 – 1973
24. Carol – Power in the Music (2014 Remaster) – 1975
25. Clap for the Wolfman – Road Food – 1974
26. Clock on the Wall – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
27. Close Up The Honky Tonks – American Woman (2017 Re-issue) – 1970
28. Coming Down Off the Money Bag/Song of the Dog – Share the Land – 1970
29. Coors for Sunday – Power in the Music – 1975
30. Could This Be Love – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
31. Creepin’ Peepin Baby Blues – Together Again – 1984
32. Dancin’ Fool – Flavours – 1974
33. Diggin’ Yourself – Flavours – 1974
34. Dirty – Flavours – 1974
35. Do You Miss Me Darlin’? – Share the Land – 1970
36. Don’t Act So Bad – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
37. Don’t Be Scared – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
38. Don’t You Want Me – Rockin’/Road Food – 1972/1974
39. Down and Out Woman – Power in the Music – 1975
40. Dreams – Power in the Music – 1975
41. Eye – Flavours – 1974
42. Fair Warning – Canned Wheat – 1969
43. Fiddlin’ – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
44. Flying on the Ground is Wrong – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection) – 1965
45. Follow Your Daughter Home – Artificial Paradise – 1973
46. Friends of Mine – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
47. Get Your Ribbons On – Rockin’ – 1972
48. Glace Bay Blues – Live at the Paramount – 1972
49. Glamour Boy – #10 – 1973
50. Goin’ a Little Crazy – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
51. Gonna Search – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
52. Goodnight, Goodnight – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
53. Got to Find Another Way – American Woman (2000 Remaster) – 1970
54. Grey Day – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
55. Guess I’ll Find a Place – It’s Time – 1966
56. Guess Who Blues – Wheatfield Soul (2009 Remaster) – 1969
57. Guns, Guns, Guns – Rockin’ – 1972
58. Hamba Gahle-Usalang Gahle – Artificial Paradise – 1973
59. Hand Me Down World – Share the Land/Live at the Paramount (2000 Re-release) – 1970/1972
60. Hang On to Your Life – Share the Land – 1970
61. Heaven Only Moved Once Yesterday – Rockin’ – 1972
62. Heartbroken Bopper – Rockin’ – 1972
63. Herbert’s a Loser – Rockin’ – 1972
64. Hey Ho, What You Do to Me – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
65. Hi Rockers! – Rockin’ – 1972
66. Hoe Down Time – Flavours – 1974
67. Humpty’s Blues/American Woman (Epilogue) – American Woman – 1970
68. Hurting Each Other – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
69. I’d Rather Be Alone – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
70. I’ll Keep Coming Back – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
71. I Found Her in a Star – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
72. If You Don’t Want Me – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection) – 1965
73. Inside Out – Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
74. I Should Have Realized – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
75. It’s My Pride – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection) – 1965
76. I’ve Been Away – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
77. I Want You to Love Me – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
78. Johnny B. Goode – Power in the Music (2014 Remaster) – 1975
79. Just a Matter of Time – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection) – 1965
80. Just Let Me Sing – #10 – 1973
81. Key – Canned Wheat – 1969
82. Laughing – Canned Wheat – 1969
83. Let’s Watch The Sun Go Down – Together Again – 1984
84. Lie Down – #10 – 1973
85. Life in the Bloodstream – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
86. Lightfoot – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
87. Like I Love You – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
88. Long Gone – Flavours – 1974
89. Lost and Found Town – Artificial Paradise – 1973
90. Lost Sheep – Rockin’ (2010 Remaster) – 1972
91. Love and a Yellow Rose – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
92. Love Grows – Together Again – 1984
93. Loves Me Like a Brother – Flavours – 1974
94. Made in England – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
95. Maple Fudge – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
96. Minstrel Boy – Canned Wheat – 1969
97. Miss Frizzy – American Woman (2017 Re-issue)/#10 – 1970/1973
98. Moan for You Joe – Share the Land – 1970
99. Musicione – #10 – 1973
100. New Mother Nature – American Woman/Live at the Paramount/Together Again – 1970/1972/1984
101. No Sugar Tonight – American Woman/Together Again – 1970/1984
102. No Time – Canned Wheat/American Woman/Live at the Paramount (2000 Re-release)/Together Again – 1969/1970/1972/1984
103. Nobody Knows His Name – Flavours – 1974
104. Not to Return – American Woman (2017 Re-issue) – 1970
105. Of a Dropping Pin – Wheatfield Soul (2009 Remaster)/Canned Wheat – 1969
106. Old Joe – Canned Wheat – 1969
107. One Divided – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
108. One Day – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
109. One Man Army – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
110. One Way Road to Hell – Road Food – 1974
111. Orly – Artificial Paradise – 1973
112. Pain Train – So Long, Bannatyne/Live at the Paramount – 1971/1972
113. Palmyra – American Woman (2017 Re-issue)/Share the Land (2000 Re-issue) – 1970
114. Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
115. Pleasin’ for Reason – Road Food – 1974
116. Power in the Music – Power in the Music – 1975
117. Proper Stranger – American Woman – 1970
118. Rain Dance – So Long, Bannatyne/Live at the Paramount (2000 Re-release) – 1971/1972
119. Rich World/Poor World – Power in the Music – 1975
120. Road Food – Road Food – 1974
121. Rock and Roller Steam – Artificial Paradise – 1973
122. Roll with the Punches – Flavours (2011 Remaster) – 1974
123. Rosanne – Power in the Music – 1975
124. Running Bear – Rockin’ – 1972
125. Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon – Live at the Paramount – 1972
126. Runnin’ Down the Street – American Woman (2017 Re-issue)/Share the Land (2016 Re-issue) – 1970
127. Samantha’s Living Room – Artificial Paradise – 1973
128. Save a Smile – Flavours (2011 Remaster) – 1974
129. Sea of Love – Rockin’/Rockin’ (2010 Remaster) – 1972
130. Seems Like I Can’t Live with You, But I Can’t Live Without You – Flavours – 1974
131. Self Pity – #10 – 1973
132. Seven Long Years – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
133. Shakin’ All Over – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian & US releases) – 1965
134. Share the Land – Share the Land/Live at the Paramount (2000 Re-release) – 1970/1972
135. She Might Have Been a Nice Girl – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
136. Shopping Bag Lady – Power in the Music – 1975
137. Shot of Rhythm ‘N Blues – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
138. Shy Guy – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
139. Silver Bird – Canned Wheat (2000 Re-issue)/American Woman (2017 Re-issue) – 1969/1970
140. Smoke Big Factory – Rockin’ – 1972
141. So Long, Bannatyne – So Long, Bannatyne – 1971
142. Sona Sona – Road Food (2012 Remaster) – 1974
143. Sour Suite – So Long, Bannatyne/Live at the Paramount (2000 Re-release) – 1971/1972
144. Species Hawk – Canned Wheat (2000 Re-issue)/American Woman (2017 Re-issue) – 1969/1970
145. Star Baby – Road Food – 1974
146. Stop Teasing Me – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian & US releases)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
147. Straighten Out – Road Food – 1974
148. Take It Off My Shoulders – #10 – 1973
149. Take the Long Way Home – American Woman (2017 Re-issue) – 1970
150. Talisman – American Woman – 1970
151. The Answer – American Woman (2017 Re-issue)/Share the Land (2000 Re-issue) – 1970
152. The Watcher – Artificial Paradise – 1973
153. Theme from a Music Box – Shakin’ All Over (US release)/Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) – 1965
154. Then I Kissed Her – Power in the Music (2014 Remaster) – 1975
155. These Eyes – Wheatfield Soul/Live at the Paramount (2000 Re-release)/Together Again – 1969/1972/1984
156. Those Show Biz Shoes – Artificial Paradise – 1973
157. Three More Days – Share the Land – 1970
158. Till We Kissed (Where Have You Been) – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian & US releases) – 1965
159. Tossin’ and Turnin’ – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian & US releases) – 1965
160. Truckin’ Off Across the Sky – Live at the Paramount – 1972
161. Tuff E Nuff – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
162. Turn Around and Walk Away – Shakin’ All Over (Canadian release) – 1965
163. Undun – Canned Wheat/Together Again – 1969/1984
164. Use Your Imagination – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection) – 1965
165. We’re Coming to Dinner – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
166. What’s Gonna Happen To The Kids – Together Again – 1984
167. When Friends Fall Out – Wheatfield Soul (2009 Remaster)/American Woman – 1969/1970
168. When the Band Was Singin’ ‘Shakin’ All Over’ – Power in the Music – 1975
169. When You Touch Me – Wheatfield Soul – 1969
170. Women – Power in the Music – 1975
171. You Know He Did – Shakin’ All Over (2001 collection)/It’s Time – 1965/1966
172. Your Back Yard – Flavours (2011 Remaster) – 1974
173. Your Nashville Sneakers – Rockin’ – 1972

Albums

Shakin’ All Over (1965) – Combined unique songs from Canadian release, US release, and 2001 collection: 36 songs

Hey Ho (What You Do to Me!) (1965) – 11 songs

It’s Time (1966) – 12 songs

Wheatfield Soul (1969) – 13 songs

Canned Wheat (1969) – 11 songs

American Woman (1970) – 16 songs (including 2000 remaster and 2017 re-issue bonus tracks)

Share the Land (1970) – 11 songs (including 2000 and 2016 re-issue bonus tracks)

So Long, Bannatyne (1971) – 13 songs (including 2010 re-issue bonus tracks)

Rockin’ (1972) – 14 songs (including 2010 remaster bonus tracks)

Live at the Paramount (1972) – 13 songs (including 2000 re-release versions)

Artificial Paradise (1973) – 10 songs

#10 (1973) – 8 songs (not counting the remix of “Glamour Boy” as a separate song)

Road Food (1974) – 10 songs (including 2012 remaster bonus tracks, not counting the run-through of “One Way Road to Hell” as a separate song)

Flavours (1974) – 13 songs (including 2011 remaster bonus tracks)

Power in the Music (1975) – 12 songs (including 2014 remaster bonus tracks, including the medley songs as separate entries)

Together Again (1984) – 9 songs

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Canadian hardcore punks Propagandhi have released the adorable music video for new single Cat Guy.

Appropriately enough, the clip for the second single from the band’s impending album At Peace is four-and-a-half minutes of cute cat footage, because if that doesn’t get people watching on YouTube, nothing will. Take a look below.

In a statement, founding singer/guitarist Chris Hannah likens Cat Guy to UK metal legends Judas Priest and Canadian hardcore veterans SNFU. “From my songwriting perspective, the thing I was thinking of was capturing a little bit of Judas Priest’s [2018 album] Firepower as if [SNFU vocalist] Chi-Pig was writing the lyrics,” he says.

At Peace comes out on May 2 via Epitaph Records. The band released the title track last month and describe the album, their first studio offering in eight years, as “a plea for hope in an era allergic to it”.

Hannah says that At Peace’s lyrics are “a snapshot of me deciding whether I’m going to live out the rest of my life as [spiritual teacher] Eckhart Tolle or as [notorious terrorist] Ted Kaczynski”.

He elaborated in an interview with Metal Hammer last month: “I think everyone’s familiar with the adage, ‘Accept what you cannot change and change what you cannot accept.’ There is a sort of Eckhart Tolle movement to accept what you cannot change.

“On the other hand, how do you change what you can’t accept in a world where it’s been proven time and time again that nothing will change and, in fact, it will just get worse?”

Formed in Winnipeg in 1986, Propagandhi have been openly anti-fascist, pro-vegan and feminist for almost 40 years. During the Hammer interview, Hannah said that the band’s outspokenness led to them being targets for the KKK.

“When we first started the band here in Winnipeg, we had lots of problems with the skinheads locally,” he remembered. “Somebody from the paper of record here in Winnipeg wrote an article about us – we have a song about the KKK that was active here at the time – and they printed a few quotes from me and the picture of the guy who was the local leader of the KKK.

“I was like, ‘Holy shit!’ These guys were phoning my house at one point and threatening me. Luckily those people were as bumbling and impotent as I am.”

Propagandhi will start a tour of continental Europe with Pennywise next month. See dates and details via their website.

Todd Rundgren will return to U.S. stages this summer for the Still Me, (Still We) Tour.

He said he thinks of these dates as an extension to the last leg of 2024’s Me/We Tour. “The show is kind of a story with a message,” Rundgren said in an official statement. “Even though a year has passed, I still think the story needs to be told.”

Shows kick off on June 21 in Rhode Island and continue through July in Florida. Along the way, Rundgren will play Chicago, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Cleveland. Other stops include New York’s Syracuse Jazz Festival and a two-night stand at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock.

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Artist presales begin at 10AM ET on Tuesday (April 15), with the password VICTORY25. General ticketing begins at 10AM local time on Wednesday (April 16).

Rundgren has been touring a Burt Bacharach-themed show. He also played Japan and Australia this year. His most recent studio project was 2022’s guest-packed Space Force, which featured Rick Nielsen, Adrian Belew, Thomas Dolby and others.

“New music is definitely percolating,” Rundgren recently told the UCR Podcast. “I’ve had a lot of different distractions that prevent me from knuckling down and doing it, but those are going to ideally dissipate as the year goes on. I’m a bit busy now but I do have a break coming up in April [until] mid-June, so I’ll be doing music before year’s end.”

Rundgren’s touring band will include the long-time rhythm section of bassist Kasim Sulton and drummer Prairie Prince, along with guitarist Bruce McDaniel, keyboardist Gil Assayas and horn player Bobby Strickland. McDaniel and Assayas were part of Kasim Sulton’s Utopia before following the bassist into Rundgren’s lineup for the Clearly Human Tour in 2021.

Todd Rundgren’s 2025 Still Me, (Still We) Tour
6/21 – Park Theatre @ Cranston, RI
6/22 – Cary Hall @ Lexington, MA
6/25 – Memorial Hall @ Plymouth, MA
6/26 – Twilight Series @ Pennsauken, NJ
6/28 – Syracuse Jazz Festival @ Syracuse, NY
6/29 – The Egg @ Albany, NY
7/2 – Count Basie Center @ Red Bank, NJ
7/3 – Artpark @ Niagara Falls, NY
7/5-6 – Bearsville Theater @ Woodstock, NY
7/8 – Andrew J. Brady Center @ Cincinnati, OH
7/9 – Bell’s Beer Garden @ Kalamazoo, MI
7/11 – Riverside Casino and Golf Resort @ Riverside, IA
7/13 – Riviera Theatre @ Chicago, IL
7/15 – Sweetwater Pavilion @ Ft Wayne, IN
7/16 – Pantages Theater @ Minneapolis, MN
7/19 – The Agora @ Cleveland, OH
7/20 – Capital One Hall @ Tysons, VA
7/22 – Wilson Center at Cape Fear College @ Wilmington, NC
7/24 – Knight Theater @ Charlotte, NC
7/25 – Charleston Music Hall @ Charleston, SC
7/27 – The Plaza Live @ Orlando, FL

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Very rare and previously unseen footage of Van der Graaf Generator performing in Toronto in 1976 has been released via YouTube and which you can watch below.

“Here’s something fairly extraordinary,” VdGG’s Peter Hammill wrote on his BlueSky page having seen the footage. “Recently found 8mm footage has been married up with audio and it’s now possible to see/hear 12 mins of VdGG at Massey Hall Toronto ’76.”

The footage was filmed at Toronot’s Massey Hall on October 15, 1976 by 18-year-old Michael Boyce, and features the only known live concert footage of VdGG during their legendary World Record tour of 1976. VdGG biographer Jim Christopulos was the catalyst in bringing the film to a wider audience.

“I’ve been secretly working on this one for a while,” Christopulos, also drummer with Chicago blues band Howard & the White Boys, wrote on Facebook. “Finally done!”

Hammill’s former manager Gail Colson also expressed her delight, stating, “Peter sent this to me a couple of hours ago. Goodness, you have been busy, well done. All the best, Gail.”

Spiritbox singer Courtney LaPlante joined Megan Thee Stallion onstage during her Coachella set this week.

The Canadian vocalist, who co-founded Spiritbox with guitarist Mike Stringer in 2017, appeared with the rap superstar on Sunday (April 13), performing last year’s collaborative track TYG. Watch the footage below.

LaPlante is one of several special guests who came out during Megan Thee Stallion’s performance in Indio, California. The rapper performed Plan B and Queen Latifah cover U.N.I.T.Y. with Latifah herself. She later did Spin and a version of Victoria Monét’s On My Mama with Monét, and a mashup of Roc Steady and Goodies with Ciara.

Megan Thee Stallion’s Coachella show was one of the last ones of the weekend. She was the main support act on the main stage on Sunday, followed by final headliner Post Malone. Lady Gaga headlined the main stage on Friday, followed by Green Day on Saturday.

Megan Thee Stallion has collaborated with Spiritbox multiple times before. In 2023, the band did an officially endorsed remix of the rapper’s song Cobra. Then, last year, they were announced as a guest on TYG, which appeared on an expanded edition of Megan Thee Stallion’s third studio album, Megan. This weekend marked TYG’s live debut.

Spiritbox released their long-awaited second album Tsunami Sea to rave reviews last month. Metal Hammer’s Rich Hobson gave it a near-perfect four-and-a-half stars and wrote, “Tsunami Sea feels like the moment Spiritbox firmly step into their own as a band who could contend with the likes of Bring Me The Horizon and Sleep Token, as the next zeitgeist-setting act.”

Spiritbox are currently touring North America and will hit the European festival circuit in June. They’re also set to play several shows supporting Linkin Park, including one at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium. See all their live plans via their website.

In a perfect universe, Raspberries would have been huge. The group’s second single “Go All the Way” sold over a million copies in 1972, earning a gold certification. They were on a good path it seemed.

But internal issues would eventually break the Cleveland-bred group apart following 1974’s Starting Over. They had pumped out an impressive four albums in barely three years, releasing a series of additional singles like “I Wanna Be With You,” “Tonight” and “Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)” that offered a tantalizing example of the band’s songwriting talents. As music fans, we hadn’t heard the words “power pop” yet, but Raspberries were a cornerstone element of helping to define what that meant, marrying lush harmonies with a powerful guitar-driven edge that packed a satisfying musical punch.

They’d made a strong case with their music, yet it would take the world at large a few more decades before they really started to show full appreciation for Raspberries. As it happens, they’d made some famous fans along the way. In the liner notes for 2007’s Raspberries: Live on Sunset Strip, Bruce Springsteen remembered driving to Asbury Park in his pickup truck with a Raspberries cassette lodged in his tape deck. Calling them “the great underrated power pop masters,” he praised their “Beach Boys harmonies” and “crunchy Who guitars.” Running down their best-known singles, he identified “Overnight Sensation” as one that should “go down as one of the great mini rock opera masterpieces of all time.” Paul Stanley, Axl Rose and Tom Petty are among the others who have offered Raspberries praise over the years.

Listen to Raspberries’ ‘Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)’

After a reunion attempt fizzled in the late ’90s, Raspberries, featuring vocalist Eric Carmen, guitarist Wally Bryson, bassist Dave Smalley and drummer Jim Bonfanti, finally were able to reassemble. A proper reunion began in late 2004 with a hometown concert in Cleveland to celebrate the opening of the local House of Blues. Author Ken Sharp (Kiss, Cheap Trick, John Lennon and Yoko Ono) was gobsmacked by the turn of events. Though he’d written a well-received book, 1993’s Overnight Sensation: The Story of Raspberries, he’d had little hope at the time it was published that the group would ever come back together.

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Sharp learned about the reunion when he made a visit to Cleveland to deliver a special hardcover edition of Marathon Man, the subsequent book he’d written about Carmen, to the singer himself. “One of the first things [the vocalist] said was, ‘You know, the band is getting back together,'” he says on the UCR Podcast. It was a moment that stunned both him and his co-author Bernie Hogya. “I’m pretty sure it was me who said, ‘What band?’ and that’s when he told us Raspberries had an offer [for a reunion]. Bernie and I were both walking on a cloud.”

The subsequent shows that followed quickly proved it had been worth the wait. The four members were joined on stage by additional players — including future Taylor Swift guitarist Paul Sidoti, a fellow Cleveland local. The added musicians, cheekily named “The Overdubs,” gave Raspberries all of the musical tools they needed to accurately reproduce the intricate and stacked arrangements of their original recordings. “A lot of reunions that happen, you kind of have to trick your ears a little bit,” he explains. “Oh, it’s pretty good. [But] with Raspberries, they overdelivered.”

2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy helped to bring the music of Raspberries to new audiences, with “Go All the Way” being one of the songs prominently featured in the movie and on the accompanying soundtrack alongside David Bowie, the Jackson 5, 10cc, the Runaways and others. It was a moment that delivered the group their first platinum album at long last. “Guardians of the Galaxy is a jumping off point for some of the newer generation,” he says. “It’s an amazing, amazing thing that just proves that what they did has a timeless quality.”

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Sharp has finally made a new edition of his book available. Overnight Sensation has been long sold out and unavailable for more than three decades. Though he planned initially just to do a straight reprint, he ended up having to recreate the book from scratch after it was discovered that the original publisher had gone out of business. Working with designer Jim Horan once again, the pair expanded the book from its initial 350 pages to over 820 pages. Featuring new and expanded interviews with Raspberries and connected figures like producer Jimmy Ienner, it also includes essays from their colleagues, road crew, friends, family and band insiders. Stuffed full of rare photos, concert reviews and other ephemera, Overnight Sensation tells the Raspberries story in a lovingly comprehensive fashion. Fans can order the massive tome from Sharp directly.

So where does one begin with Raspberries once you get hooked in by the singles? For Sharp, it’s a simple answer: 1973’s Side 3. “It’s my favorite of the albums. I think Jim [Bonfanti] said this to me, possibly in the book, that he kind of wishes it was the first album,” the author explains. “I love all four records. They all have their own individual character — and I could have leaned towards Starting Over too, but I would say that Side 3 really captured, I think, what they wanted to be from the start and maybe how they sounded live. I would put up so many of these songs, ‘Tonight,’ ‘Next to See Me,’ [with] the most incredible pop songs [by other artists]. I don’t want anyone to get angry with me, but I put [those songs] on the level of ‘Go All the Way,’ with being so incredible. I would want people to start there and then investigate the other records.”

Listen to Raspberries’ ‘Tonight’

“They haven’t gotten the respect they deserve, in my opinion,” Springsteen adds in the book. With all of the power pop music you hear out there, what about the Raspberries?” The band, he says, “had at least one full album of stone cold classics.” He punctuates his thoughts with one final thing. “At the time, [they were] considered not hip, due to the fact that they had hit after hit after hit after hit, but damn, they were good.”