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Canadian band whose lead singer was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer have
performed their last concert at the end of an emotional farewell tour. The
Tragically Hip drew a sell-out crowd to the last show in Kingston, Ontario, on
Saturday, broadcast live across Canada. PM Justin Trudeau, who was at the live
show, said the band had "been writing Canada's soundtrack for over 30
years". Lead singer Gord Downie, 52, announced his illness in May. The
news caused shock across Canada. Aug. 21
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37147588
The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, are
a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of lead singer Gord
Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker
until 1994), bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay. They released 14
studio albums, two live albums, 1 EP, and 54 singles. Nine of their albums have
reached No. 1 in Canada. They have received numerous Canadian Music awards,
including 14 Juno Awards. Following Downie's diagnosis with terminal brain
cancer in 2016, the band undertook a final tour of Canada in support of their
thirteenth album Man Machine Poem. The group's final concert was held at the
Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario on August 20, 2016 just two days
after a lunar eclipse. All eclipses are about some kind of endings as is this one too.
A chart for the eclipse has
it placed exactly on the horizon at
Kingston implying that this is one place where its effect is felt strongly. (Incidentally, the
eclipse is also conjunct Downie’s radix Saturn [24aq] (d.o.b. Feb.6, 1964) which is
in a wide conjunction to his radix Sun-Mars.)
ORPHEUS (also
LACRIMOSA): Sad, sweet or haunting music, lyrics or poetry; dirges; sense of
mourning and loss; grief (for what you don't have—what has gone out of your
life-- “might have been” or what was);
contact with death.
From the foregoing it is not difficult to see the possible death
of a singer from brain cancer.
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