NEW YORK—Robbie Bachman, the drummer for the Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at age 69.
His death was announced on social media Thursday by his brother and bandmate, Randy Bachman, who did not cite a cause.
“The pounding beat of BTO has left us,” Randy Bachman wrote.
The Bachman brothers were Winnipeg natives who had been playing music since childhood.
Robbie Bachman first worked with his older brother Randy, a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, in the group Brave Belt, which the elder Bachman helped found in the early 1970s after leaving the top-selling act the Guess Who.
The two Bachmans, along with brother Tim Bachman on guitar (later replaced by Blair Thornton) and Fred Turner on bass, formed Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973 and sold millions of records over the next three years….