{"id":45972,"date":"2022-07-02T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T02:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/i-was-crying-rock-legend-randy-bachman-reunited-with-stolen-guitar-45-years-on"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T02:31:19","slug":"i-was-crying-rocker-randy-bachman-reunites-with-stolen-guitar-45-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45972","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was crying\u2019: rocker Randy Bachman reunites with stolen guitar 45 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Who member gets back the Gretsch that he used to write American Woman, after fan tracked it down in Tokyo using photos of woodgrain<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman\u2019s long search has come to an end with him being reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy girlfriend is right there,\u201d said Bachman, 78, a former member of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as the Gretsch guitar on which he wrote American Woman and other hits was handed to him by a Japanese musician who had bought it at a Tokyo store in 2014 without knowing its history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/02\/i-was-crying-rock-legend-randy-bachman-reunited-with-stolen-guitar-45-years-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Who member gets back the Gretsch that he used to write American Woman, after fan tracked it down in Tokyo using photos of woodgrainThe Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman\u2019s long search has come to an end with him being reunited in Tokyo with a che&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,88,425,1032],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-japan","category-music","category-pop-and-rock"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions\/45973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}