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Bachman Turner Overdrive

Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, February 1974

AMERICANS tend to pronounce the word "boogie" with one "u" and a couple of "g's". It comes out sounding "buggie" and it's heard a lot at rock and roll concerts, especially outside the big cities where the more sophisticated forms of today's rock don't often reach.

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