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ByBrian Boone

For more than 25 years now, the Goo Goo Dolls have been a consistent and dominant part of the American audio landscape. Since , with the success of its breakout hit guitar ballad "Name," the Goo Goo Dolls have cranked out one massive radio standard after another, pop-rock favorites and smashes like "Iris," "Slide," "Black Balloon," "Here is Gone," and more.

In every permutation a powerful trio that gets a lot of sound out of just a few guys and their instruments, the band formed in Buffalo in the s and toiled for years building a cult following as a melodic punk outfit — reminiscent of peers like the Replacements or Soul Asylum – before finding their sound as the preeminent grown-up rock n' rollers of the '90s and beyond.

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Through all the successes, however, the Goo Goo Dolls — alone and together — have experienced and endured all kinds of heartbreak, heartache, turmoil