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вЂњYeah,вЂќ he said, вЂњto the point where it would be like, вЂJesus, is that guy not dead yet?вЂ™ Canadians can be funny.Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie was in the middle of writing the band's latest album, Now for Plan A, when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. вЂњSo we could hear more from the Hip?вЂќ he was asked. He said that both he and the Hip were still working on new material and had some in the can. In an interview last year, Downie expressed frustration with not being able to remember names and lyrics because of his illness, but he also showed that he could joke about it. And, since last year, his causes had included the one that affected him personally: The Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research was established at the time he announced his diagnosis.Дownie is survived by his wife, Laura Leigh Usher, from whom he was separated four children his mother two brothers and two sisters. We are not the country we thought we were.вЂќД®nvironmentalism was another cause Downie championed, through work with organizations like Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, on whose board he served. вЂњHis story is CanadaвЂ™s story,вЂќ he said of the boy, Chanie Wenjack. Downie was concerned about his countryвЂ™s reluctance to deal with its past and its treatment of its indigenous peoples. Reviewing a 1998 New York performance by the Tragically Hip, Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that the group вЂњharks back to 1960s rock, building songs on guitar riffs that look back to the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Neil Young and the blues.вЂќ DownieвЂ™s lyrics, he wrote, вЂњare about endless varieties of disillusionment.вЂќДЄmong DownieвЂ™s most recent efforts was вЂњSecret Path,вЂќ a multimedia project - including an album, a graphic novel by Downie and Jeff Lemire, and an animated film - based on the true story of an indigenous boy who died of exposure after running away from a residential school in northern Ontario and trying to make his way 400 miles back to his home. вЂњIntroduce YerselfвЂќ is his sixth solo album. Downie also pursued solo projects, beginning with вЂњCoke Machine GlowвЂќ in 2001. Its latest, вЂњMan Machine Poem,вЂќ was released last year. The band would go on to record more than a dozen albums, beginning with вЂњUp to HereвЂќ in 1989.

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вЂњWeвЂ™d do it for fun and play for free beer.вЂќ вЂњWe began as a university party band, doing Stones covers,вЂќ Sinclair once recounted in an interview. He was a student at QueenвЂ™s University in Kingston, Ontario, in the mid-вЂ™80s when he formed the Hip with the guitarist Rob Baker, the bassist Gord Sinclair, the percussionist Johnny Fay and the saxophonist Davis Manning (who was replaced in 1986 by Paul Langlois). 6, 1964, to Edgar and Lorna Downie and grew up in Amherstview, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The final show of that tour, in August in Kingston, Ontario, the bandвЂ™s home base, turned into a national event. вЂњGord and the Tragically Hip are an inevitable and essential part of what we are and who we are as a country,вЂќ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on the occasion of a tour by the band last year. вЂњWheat KingsвЂќ references David Milgaard, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a nurse in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. вЂњFifty Mission CapвЂќ involves a hockey player, Bill Barilko of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who died in a plane crash.

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The Hip, as the band was generally called, started as a bar band in the 1980s but grew into a phenomenon, fueled by DownieвЂ™s lyrics, which were full of Canadian history and culture.

вЂњEvery Canadian musician just lost their cooler older brother,вЂќ the members of Barenaked Ladies, another Canadian rock group, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. Downie had recently been working on a solo album, вЂњIntroduce Yerself,вЂќ scheduled to be released Oct. The band announced the death on its website. He was 53 and had announced last year that he had terminal brain cancer. Gord Downie, lead singer and lyricist of the Tragically Hip and one of CanadaвЂ™s most revered rock stars, died Tuesday in Toronto.

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