Report News: Family of Robbie Bachman remembering the death of ..Robbie Bachman lost today Mark’s….
Report News: Family of Robbie Bachman remembering the death of ..Robbie Bachman lost today Mark’s….
recent weeks, the music community has lost quite a number of drummers. This time, it is Robbie Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive fame who joins that ‘club’. The musician died in Vancouver, Canada, on January 12, just a few weeks before his 70th birthday. No cause of death has been given as yet but, according to his brother Randy, he suffered from heart issues.
Robbie Bachman and Bachman Turner Overdrive perform live on stage in New York in December 1974. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)
Randy Bachman‘s (BTO’s guitarist, singer, writer, co-founder and the brother of the deceased) official FB profile reads:
“Another sad departure. The pounding beat behind BTO has left us. I just got a call from Fred Turner and my youngest brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Fred said maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer to play with. 😉 He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together.“
BTO Mark II. L-R: Randy Bachman, Blair Thornton, Robbie Bachman, Fred Turner
Robin Peter Kendall Bachman was born on February 18, 1953. Growing up in Winnipeg, Canada, he played drums at home as a youngster, often jamming with his older brother Randy, who had already become a professional musician by the 1960s. Towards the end of the decade, he achieved success with The Guess Who (their biggest hit was the US no. 1 smash “American Woman” in 1970).
Robbie Bachman. Photo: Getty Images
In 1971, Randy invited his younger, eighteen-year-old brother to join his new band called Brave Belt. Two years later, after recording two albums, the band was renamed Bachman Turner Overdrive, and Robbie then showed his artistic skills by designing the band’s logo.
The 1970s was the peak of BTO’s (and thus Bachman’s) fame. Between 1973 and 1976, the band had five Top 40 LPs and six Top 40 singles in the US, as well as eleven Canadian Top 40 singles. Robbie Bachman co-wrote one of the band’s biggest hits, “Roll On Down the Highway“. The drummer left the group in 1979, after recording the album “Rock n’ Roll Nights” and completing the concert tour supporting the release.
