"Lifestyle differences led Bachman to leave the group during their unfinished 1970 album The Way They Were"
Due to booze and drugs, Burton Cummings was a barely functional human being unless he was sitting at a piano. In some cases they'd drag him on stage and prop him up at the keys and cross their fingers. When the lights went up and the first song started it was like flipping a switch - he'd hammer out every song.
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