The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip, hand-drawn portrait of the band in 1990 with (top left clockwise) vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair, drummer Johnny Fay and guitarist Paul Langlois.
The image was used promotionally for the first time during the release of The Tragically Hip’s latest album, Saskadelphia, in 2021.

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984.

Gord Sinclair and Rob Baker were students at Kingston Collegiate and had performed together at the KCVI Variety Show as the Rodents.
Baker and Sinclair joined with Downie and Fay in 1984 and began playing gigs around Kingston with some memorable stints at Clark Hall Pub and Alfie’s, student bars on Queen’s University campus.
Guitarist Paul Langlois joined in 1986; saxophonist Davis Manning left that same year.
They took their name from a skit in the Michael Nesmith movie Elephant Parts.

They released 13 studio albums, one live album, one EP, and over 50 singles over a 33-year career.
Nine of their albums have reached No. 1 on the Canadian charts. They have received numerous Canadian music awards, including 17 Juno Awards.
Between 1996 and 2016, the Tragically Hip were the best-selling Canadian band in Canada and the fourth best-selling Canadian artist overall in Canada.

Following Gord Downie’s diagnosis with terminal brain cancer in 2015, the band undertook a tour of Canada in support of their thirteenth album, Man Machine Poem.
The tour’s final concert, which would ultimately be the band’s last show, was held at the Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston on August 20, 2016.

After Downie died on October 17, 2017 at age 53, the band announced in July 2018 that they would no longer perform under the name.

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