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The Number Ones: The Guess Who’s “American Woman”

Led Zeppelin never got any higher than #4. ("Whole Lotta Love," 1970, would've been a 10.) Deep Purple got to #4 twice, but they never got any higher. ("Hush," 1968, a 9, and "Smoke On The Water," 1973, an 8.) Black Sabbath peaked at #52. ("Iron Man," 1972.
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“Our position was anti-war:” The making of American Woman, by The Guess Who

How four Canadians scored a US No 1 with a covert anti-war song written at a curling rink, and then got banned from playing it on the White House lawn... "It would've been monstrous! July 1970, and Prince Charles and Princess Anne visit Canada for the ...