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“Fast Train” is the first single by the Canadian rock band April Wine, from their 1971 self-titled debut album (See 1971 in music). The song was a top 40 hit in Canada, peaking at #38 on the RPM 100 Singles Chart, Canada’s then only national singles chart which measured hit singles across Canada. It also peaked at #23 on the Canadian CHUM singles chart, a Top 40 chart that measured hit singles in the Toronto area, on June 26 that year. It was the success of this single that first established Myles Goodwyn as the band’s main songwriter, and made it possible for April Wine to record a second album. “Fast Train” appears on the movie soundtrack for Natural Enemy (1997), a film starring Donald Sutherland and William McNamara. Read on...