The Tragically Hip Trivia Questions & Answers : Page 7

This song was a favourite one for the band to perform live and they played it during their performance at Woodstock 99 as well as at the Live 8 concert in 2005 where actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd joined them on stage and played harmonica. The song reached number one on Canada's Alternative music chart and stayed there for 12 weeks, which was longer than any other song in history.

"...Twenty years for nothing, well that's nothing new
Besides, no one's interested in something you didn't do."

This lyric outlines the sentence given to David Milgaard in 1970 even though it was later determined that he never committed a crime in the first place. In 1969, Milgaard and his friends Ron Wilson and Nichol John were taking a road trip across Western Canada. At the time, Milgaard was 16 years of age. Police had discovered the body of a nurse named Gail Miller. At the time of their arrest, Milgaard and his friends were going to pick up another friend named Albert Cadrain who was renting a basement apartment to a man named Larry Fisher. While Wilson, John, and Cadrain knew of Milgaard's innocence, they testified against him anyways. In 1970, Milgaard was sentenced to life imprisonment.

After years of appealing his sentence, the Saskatchewan government entered a stay of proceedings (halting of a new trial) as it was determined through DNA and other evidence that Milgaard had never committed the murder in the first place. Milgaard's sentence was overturned and he was released from prison. In 1980, the ex-wife of the tenant Larry Fisher had made a statement that she believed her ex-husband had actually committed the crime but authorities did not follow up on her statement. Through new technologies, it was determined that Fisher was the real killer and in 2000, he was sentenced to life in prison. In 2015, Fisher would die in prison.

This is the quintessential album to have as it includes all of the greatest music written by the Hip. All the songs were chosen by fans in a survey on the Hip website.

On their website, On May 24, 2016, The Tragically Hip announced that Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. His doctors at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center confirmed his diagnosis of a glioblastoma. The band did one more tour and released their 14th studio album "Man Machine Poem". It is estimated that over 11.7 million people watched their last concert while it was streamed live by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on television, internet and the radio.

"Eldorado" is inspired by the South American, ancient city whose ruler surrounded himself with gold that has become a myth known to many cultures around the world. The word itself, in Spanish (coined by the conquistadors of the 16th century) is spelled El Dorado, and means "The Golden Man."*

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*Look for some of this info at www.hipmuseum.com, a great site for explaining some of Gord Downie's enigmatic lyrics.

Mike Clattenberg of the "Trailer Park Boys" directs this video.

Grace comes from downtown and was born ready for you. This song is often the first in the set of the band's live performances and is the author's personal favourite.

This song is from the album "Trouble at the Henhouse", an eclectic set released in 1996.

"Tom Thomson came paddling past. I'm pretty sure it was him." Mr. Thomson drowned in Canoe Lake in Central Ontario. The cause of death was never proven, but some suspect he was murdered by a jealous husband.

The 100th meridian of longitude passes through Canada in the eastern section of the province of Manitoba. I have driven over it twice and the trees literally stop and the prairies begin.