Gordon Edgar Downie was one of the most riveting and mystifying performers in rock’n’roll history. Then sit back and see what happens, because it’s not like you can control it. The poet whose metaphors had inspired generations of rock’n’roll fans had nothing more to say-with words, anyway.ĭo the work. He stoked the fire until sparks came out. Then he got up, silently, walked over to a pile of wood, picked up two logs, and returned to put them on the fire. And it seems like you get up there every single time and give it!” “Gord, I always wanted to ask you: how do you get the energy to make it so real every day? I think if I put myself out there like that, on the line, and make people emotionally connect with me, I feel like I couldn’t ever do it again, because I’d get bored or I just couldn’t summon the same amount of emotion. There were a few others there, though, most of whom knew enough to respect the privacy of the cancer-stricken man who had travelled hundreds of kilometres to disappear. Just a few close friends on a starry night in front of a campfire. It would turn out to be the last show of his band’s 30-year, multi-million-selling, award-winning career, a fate many suspected at the time.īut things were much quieter now. Where some go to get lost.ĭays earlier, this quiet man had held much of the entire nation rapt, millions watching as he summoned all his strength to tackle his terminal condition, to fend back-however briefly-the inevitability of death. In the remote north, in a land where the many not born there dare not go. Throughout their career, The Tragically Hip won 16 Juno awards – more than any other band – and received the Order of Canada a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award an honorary fellowship with the Royal Conservatory of Music a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame and an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.He was on a fishing trip. The stamps are available in booklets of 10 stamps, a set of four booklets and a souvenir sheet of four stamps. The official first-day covers were cancelled in Winnipeg, Man.
GORD DOWNIE TODAY SERIES
The Hip stamp depicts a photograph of the band with their logo to the bottom-left and “CANADA” to the bottom-right corner.Įach stamp in the series measures 32 mm by 32 mm with simulated perforations. The Canadian Recording Artists: The Bands issue featured three other acts-Rush, the Guess Who and Beau Dommage. In 2013, Canada Post featured The Tragically Hip on 63-cent Permanent stamp (Scott #2655a-2656) printed by the Lowe-Martin Group on Tullis Russell Coatings coated paper using five-colour lithography. The 2013 ‘Canadian Recording Artists’ set also featured Rush, Beau Dommage and The Guess Who. Thank you everyone for all the respect, admiration and love you have given Gord throughout the years – those tender offerings touched his heart and he takes them with him now as he walks among the stars. Thank you for all the help and support over the past two years.
We would like to thank all the kind folks at KGH and Sunnybrook, Gord’s bandmates, management team, friends and fans. No one worked harder on every part of their life than Gord. At home, he worked just as tirelessly at being a good father, son, brother, husband and friend. As a musician, he lived “the life” for over 30 years, lucky to do most of it with his high school buddies. Gord knew this day was coming – his response was to spend this precious time as he always had – making music, making memories and expressing deep gratitude to his family and friends for a life well lived, often sealing it with a kiss… on the lips.
Last night Gord quietly passed away with his beloved children and family close by. SURROUNDED BY FAMILYĭownie died surrounded by his children and family, according to a statement on the band’s website. Shortly before his death, Downie announced he was working on another solo album, this a double album entitled Introduce Yerself, which featured 23 songs and was released on Oct.
We are not the country we thought we were.” His story is Canada’s story,” said Downie in a statement to mark the album’s release. In 1966, Wenjack died of exposure and hunger after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont. SECRET PATHįollowing the band’s final tour, Downie released Secret Path, which tells the story of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack with an accompanying 88-page graphic novel and animated film. 17, 2017, surrounded by his children and family.
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