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Mark Farner talks new live DVD, Grand Funk Railroad hits, Rock Hall snub
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
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Where would ’70s rock be without Grand Funk Railroad? The Flint, Michigan trio spent the decade liquifying hi-fi’s and coliseums with blue-collar groove-guitar songs, like “We’re An American Band,” “Shinin’ On,” and “Footstompin’ Music,” and big-hair covers of R&B gems “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “The Loco-Motion.”
Grand Funk sold out New York’s Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles had. They were a band of the people if there ever was. And a welcome, feet-on-the-street counterpoint to far-out divinity like Led Zeppelin, Queen and David Bowie.