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17:30 Monday, 4 July 2022
Randy Bachman has performed many times on Canada Day, but the event he played this year is like no other, reports CBC News.
The former member of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive flew to Japan to reclaim a guitar that he's been hunting for decades.
"I'm really happy. I'm getting my lost Gretsch guitar back," the 78-year-old rocker told CBC News in a meeting room inside the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo.
The guitar is a 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins, in orange, which he bought from a Winnipeg music store when he was 19 years old. Forty-five years after it was stolen in Toronto, it's back in his arms, and he can hardly believe it.
"If you never want to forget your anniversary, you get married on your birthday. You never forget your wedding anniversary. I'll never forget this day," said Bachman.
Read more at CBC News, and watch a video report below.
