Guess Who's a smash!
Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 28 December 1974
"I WANTED to buy some records, so I went collecting for UNICEF on Halloween and took the money," recalls the 26-year-old lead singer for the Guess Who, Burton Cummings, as the remaining members of the group, Bill Wallace bass, Garry Peterson drums and Domenic Troiano guitar, filed into the fourth floor office of RCA records.
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