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Help me put Gord in the encyclopedia - grooveless touque - 11-03-2004
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia I find very entertaining and useful and user-friendly, has Gord Downie listed, but they only say that he is the lead singer of the Hip and has two solo albums. Below this information is an option to tell Wikipedia more, and get a more appropriately detailed listing for the great man we all admire.
So...I'm opening the floor to any and all biographical information about Gord. Birthdate & place? Info from before the band? Awards he has won? Anything relating to his published poetry? Charitable affiliations? Family? Hobbies outside the band?
I would really like to see Gord get some recognition in the big book! Hope you guys can fill in the many, many blanks left by the current listing!
- kieffer - 11-03-2004
hey if you look gord up on imdb.com you will find lots of cool information and facts on his life!
- kieffer - 11-03-2004
heres the link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0970841/">http://imdb.com/name/nm0970841/</a><!-- m -->
and this is what is listed under his biography section:
Biography for
Gord Downie
Trivia
Lead singer/song-writer of the band The Tragically Hip.
Resides in Toronto.
Downie and his fellow bandmates started out singing cover songs in bars and quickly became Canada's most popular band. Gord released his first solo album "Coke Machine Glow" in early 2001.
Graduated from Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (Kingston, ON) in 1982. His bandmates from The Tragically Hip also attended the school. He attended Ernestown Secondary School (Odessa, ON) in Grade 9 and part of Grade 10.
Studied at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
Was a goalie in minor hockey and played for a bantam team which won an Ontario championship in 1979.
Fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club. The Hip's song "50 Mission Cap" (From their album Fully Completely) touches on the legend of Bill Barilko, a Leafs player who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1951 and disappeared on a fishing trip later that year.
The Hip's song "Wheat Kings" makes reference to David Milgaard, who spent 22 years in a Canadian prison for a 1969 murder he was eventually found not to have committed.
The working title for the song "Fireworks" (from the album Phantom Power) was "Bobby Orr", after the great Boston Bruins defenceman. The goal "that everyone remembers" was Paul Henderson's winning goal during the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series. Orr did not play in the series because of one of his many knee operations.
His band, The Hip's song, "Heaven Is A Better Place Today", is dedicated to Dan Snyder, the Atlanta Thrasher hockey player who was killed in a car accident last fall. Synder died in October from the wounds he suffered when, as a passenger, he was thrown from teammate Dan Heatley's Ferrari when Heatley lost control of the car, causing it to crash.
- stanslow12 - 11-03-2004
"Fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs"? That quote would disgust Gord
- grooveless touque - 11-03-2004
That's why I was hoping for fan perspective. The published info given above is adequate, but I am looking for things that academic sources might overlook, things the fans know - like Gord is a Bruins fan first and foremost.
- Stephen Dame - 11-05-2004
I think it'd be cool to mention his interest in poetry and film and how those arts have informed most of his musical career.
A little something about the irony that is the symbol of "Gordie" would be cool too. He's an icon for the hat-backwards I-AM crowd, yet he despises nationalism... it's his gift, it's his curse.
- skippy the wonder dog - 11-05-2004
I'd say that which team he backs is irrelevant -- pure trivia. Far more interesting are his influences, major themes, etc.
Seriously, if someone wants to know what he's all about, why tell them he likes hockey?