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Rock icon reunited with stolen guitar after 46 years

Rock veteran Randy Bachman receives his original Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins guitar from Japanese musician Takeshi during a special concert staged at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on Friday.

TOKYO: They say you never forget your first love, and after pining for his stolen guitar for almost half a century, Canadian rock star Randy Bachman has finally been reunited with the instrument which an eagle-eyed fan tracked down in Japan.

Bachman, who wrote the original American Woman with his band The Guess Who, was in Tokyo for the emotional handover on Friday — 46 years after his cherished orange Gretsch was snatched from a Toronto hotel.

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