TOM COCHRANE & RED RIDER - Big League
In the fall of 1988, the band released
their sixth album Victory Day which contained the track "Big League,"
about the death of a young hockey player. The young man's father
approached Cochrane on the day of a concert, mentioning that his son
was a big fan of Red Rider's song, "Boy Inside The Man." Cochrane asked
the man if his son was going to be attending the concert, and the man
responded that his son had recently died in a car accident.
Another note about "Big League" is that Cochrane played it at GM place
at the start of the 08/09 hockey season to commemorate the passing of
Luc Bourdon, a member of the Vancouver Canucks who died eerily, like
that that was described in the song
(by a truck doing 70 in the wrong lane).
(Thanks Wikipedia)
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