moment came in 1995 when - after notching their third straight Canadian Number One album with Day For Night – they played Saturday Night Live. In the end,though, the band’s biggest U.S. They picked up their first Juno award – Most Promising Group of the Year – in 1990.Īs their popularity in Canada grew, The Tragically Hip seemed primed to cross over in America, especially during alternative rock’s Nineties. Their self-titled debut EP arrived in 1987 while their first LP, Up to Here, followed in 1989. The group gigged around Canada throughout the Eighties and eventually earned a record contract after then-MCA President Bruce Dickinson caught them live in Toronto.
Gord Downie formed The Tragically Hip in 1984 alongside childhood friends Bobby Baker, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay. We’re still trying to figure out what makes us Canadian, and we have one of the loudest neighbors in the world, so this band helped a country, and Gord helped people lyrically, slowly start to try to define themselves.” Speaking with The New York Times around the band’s final show, Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew summed up The Tragically Hip’s influence: “We’re a country that hasn’t really embraced its history just yet. In 2013, the band was featured on a set of postage stamps and in July, they received the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honors. The band’s greatest accomplishment, however, may be transcending their status as a key Canadian cultural touchstone to an integral part of the country’s identity. The band also earned 16 Juno Awards – the most ever for a band and the fourth-most ever for an artist – picking up their last two in April for Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year for Man Machine Poem. Over three decades, The Tragically Hip released 14 studio albums, the majority of which topped the Canadian album charts and were eventually certified Platinum (their first three LPs all went Diamond). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in attendance and the Toronto Police Department summed up the event’s magnitude with a simple tweet: “Dear world, Please be advised that Canada will be closed tonight at 8:30 p.m. The concert was broadcast live and viewing parties were held across Canada.
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