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Downloading Dead Age3/31/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music historian John Einarson said that particular recording is the one that "put Winnipeg on the musical map across Canada." Ties to big bandsīorn Allan Kowbel, he took the stage name of Chad Allan - a nod, according to an obituary published Friday, to a singer he admired named Chad Mitchell.īut it was Allan whose name fronted Allan and the Silvertones in 1958. The band later changed its name to Chad Allan and the Expressions before finally becoming The Guess Who.Īllan's voice will be familiar to those who have heard the band's cover of Shakin' All Over, on which he sang the vocals. "He was just such a wonderful, happy and positive person who never really got the credit he deserved," publicist and friend Jamie Anstey said in a recent phone interview discussing Allan's life and musical career. Yet despite being a member of a pair of high-profile bands that went on to be radio hit-makers, Allan's name is not as well known as former bandmates Burton Cummings or Randy Bachman. Chad Allan, a Winnipeg-born, multi-talented musician who shared a stage with some of Canada's rock greats and hosted CBC's Let's Go music program, has died at the age of 80.Īllan, a singer and songwriter who played multiple instruments, was inducted into the Order of Manitoba in 2015 for his contributions to Canadian music and his "pivotal role" in the genesis of two very well-known bands from his hometown - first with The Guess Who and later with the future Bachman-Turner Overdrive. ![]()
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