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Pounding out their rock sounds with a giant Maple Leaf flag as backdrop, Canadian rock band, The Guess Who, had 20,000 people displaying unprecedented(...)
Pounding out their rock sounds with a giant Maple Leaf flag as backdrop, Canadian rock band, The Guess Who, had 20,000 people displaying unprecedented(...)

Pounding out their rock sounds with a giant Maple Leaf flag as backdrop, Canadian rock band, The Guess Who, had 20,000 people displaying unprecedented(...)

Date9/1/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pounding out their rock sounds with a giant Maple Leaf flag as backdrop; Canadian rock band; The Guess Who; had 20;000 people displaying unprecedented emotion; lighting fires and yelling for encore after encore in concert at CNE Grandstand Saturday night. Critic Peter Goddard says whole scene made him nervous.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0102038F
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