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Tom Cochrane - "Remember the good times and least you forget, Have no regrets"

Tom Cochrane, vocals, guitar

Tom Cochrane's most popular CDs and DVDs: Mad Mad World. Anthology, Songs of the Circling Spirit, Ragged Ass Road, Trapeze

See their performance on stage
at Live 8 Canada

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Philadelphia, USA
and London DVD set here
(4 Box set)

Set list:

Life is a Highway 6:42
No Regrets 3:27

Discography:

	Mad Mad World
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	Anthology
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	Ragged Ass Road
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Tom Cochrane at Live 8

Tom Cochrane (born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, whose story-telling songs have earned him the nickname "The thinking man's rocker". Perhaps Tom Cochrane best known song is the hit single "Life Is a Highway".

Cochrane was born in Lynn Lake, Manitoba to Violet and Tuck Cochrane, a bush pilot. The family relocated to Etobicoke, Ontario when Tom was four years old. He purchased his first guitar at age 11 by selling a toy train set.

In the early 1970s, Tom Cochrane was performing in coffee houses across Canada. He eventually made his way to Los Angeles where he found a job writing theme music for My Pleasure is My Business, a Xaviera Hollander movie. Unable to find steady income from music, Cochrane returned to Toronto where he drove a taxi cab and later took a job on a Caribbean cruise liner to help pay the bills. Cochrane went back to Los Angeles in 1976, trying to sell his songs to publishers but without success, and returned to Toronto in 1977. Cochrane walked into the El Mocambo club one night in Toronto and came across a band of locals calling themselves Red Rider. After an audition, they agreed to Cochrane joining the band as lead singer and songwriter.

After the Red Rider era, Tom Cochrane set off on his soloist path again. In 1990, Cochrane took his family to West Africa where he helped to raise awareness and money for the World Vision famine relief organization. That experience shaped his next album Mad Mad World which contained the internationally acclaimed hit single "Life is a Highway".

The three-CD box set Ashes to Diamonds, including material by both Red Rider and Tom Cochrane as a solo artist, was released in 1993.

In 1995, Cochrane released Ragged Ass Road and followed that with a Canadian tour in 1996. The tour resulted in Songs of a Circling Spirit, a live CD and multi-media package of previously released material.

In June 1999, Tom Cochrane was involved in a light plane crash in Montreal, after one of the wings came off in a grove of trees. Fortunately, no one was injured.

At the 2003 Juno Awards, Tom Cochrane was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The special award ceremony took place April 5, 2003 at Casino du Lac-Leamy in Ottawa, Ontario.

In December 2003 Cochrane was one of the musical guests on a CBC special called, Rick Mercer's Christmas in Kabul.

He currently lives with his family in Oakville, Ontario.
On July 2nd, 2005, Tom took part in the Live 8 Canada concert series.


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Bands that played Live 8 Canada

Bryan Adams
African Guitar Summit
Jann Arden
Barenaked Ladies
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Tom Cochrane
Bachman Cummings Band
Deep Purple
Dobacaracol
Gordon Lightfoot
Great Big Sea
Jet
Les Trois Accords
Mötley Crüe
Our Lady Peace
Sam Roberts
Simple Plan
The Tragically Hip
Neil Young
Dan Aykroyd
Tom Green

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