New Book on Tragically Hip Coming Out in April

Author Michael Barclay’s new book is called “The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip” and it will come out April 3rd.  If you’re a big Hip fan or want to go behind the incredible battle wage by lead singer Gord Downie this should definitely be on your list of books to buy. In an article in McLean’s the author speak’s to Downie’s poetic nature. “The greatest compliment you can give a poet is to say she’s a rock star,” says poet Damian Rogers. “The greatest compliment that you can give a musician is to say he’s a poet. Gord Downie is both. When I was growing up, it was Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell. That’s who influenced me as a poet.”

An excerpt from the book is available at Macleans by clicking here

Following his death …fans in Kingston gathered to sing “Ahead By A Century”

(Photograph by Nick Iwanyshyn)