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The Guess Who End Decades-Long Legal Battle: ‘An Impossible Task’

The Guess Who's decades-long name dispute is over as original members Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings have acquired the trademark to the name.

The Guess Who ‘s founding singer Burton Cummings and guitarist Randy Bachman have settled their lawsuit with fellow original members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson and acquired the trademark to their former band’s name,ending a bitter dispute over the legacy of one of Canada’s most famed classic rock acts. “It’s been a very stressful period, but I’m relieved that it’s behind us and confident that I can come back to the states with my band and play all my songs,” Cummings tells Rolling Stone. After filing their lawsuit, Bachman and Cummings had taken a particularly aggressive and unprecedented approach to stopping the band from performing their previously scheduled shows.

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