![]() ![]() “Don’t believe everything you read,” Baker tweeted in April. But Downie’s bandmate Rob Baker wasn’t having it, and the guitarist took to social media to let the world know. ![]() So, all good, right? The best biographies are invariably the unauthorized ones, after all. Woven from a vast range of secondary sources as well as new interviews with crucial figures in the band’s community and orbit, shot through with both a critic’s rigour and a fan’s fervour, it’s a book fully worthy of its beloved subjects’ unique place in the Canadian firmament. It was a very emotionally sensitive time, for one thing”), he went ahead regardless, and The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip (ECW, 482 pages, $34.95) is the fruit of his determination. Denied access to the band members (“I did not necessarily expect them to talk, and I respect that. Concerned lest the Hip’s multi-faceted history be “reduced to flag-waving or a cancer narrative,” he decided to tell it himself. Michael Barclay, music critic and co-author of the definitive CanRock history Have Not Been the Same, was closely watching Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip along with nearly everyone else during this time. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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