Downie also pursued solo projects, beginning with “Coke Machine Glow” in 2001. Its latest, “Man Machine Poem,” was released last year. The band would go on to record more than a dozen albums, beginning with “Up to Here” in 1989.
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“We’d do it for fun and play for free beer.” “We began as a university party band, doing Stones covers,” Sinclair once recounted in an interview. He was a student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in the mid-’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 band’s home base, turned into a national event. “Gord and the Tragically Hip are an inevitable and essential part of what we are and who we are as a country,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on the occasion of a tour by the band last year.
“Wheat Kings” references David Milgaard, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a nurse in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. “Fifty Mission Cap” 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 Downie’s lyrics, which were full of Canadian history and culture. “Every Canadian musician just lost their cooler older brother,” the members of Barenaked Ladies, another Canadian rock group, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. Downie had recently been working on a solo album, “Introduce Yerself,” scheduled to be released Oct. The band announced the death on its website.
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