Tom Cochrane
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Tom Cochrane – Life Is a Highway
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Cochrane was born in Lynn Lake, Manitoba to Violet and Tuck Cochrane, a bush pilot. The family relocated to Etobicoke, Ontario in the West Deane Park area when Tom was four years old. He purchased his first guitar at age 11 by selling a toy train set. He attended Martingrove Collegiate Institute in the 1960’s. In the early 1970s, he 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, a decision that would change their musical careers.
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Thamior666
boy inside the man should be first
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macychick
Life Is A Highway ♥ Long Live the 1990's!
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jacquesjugovic
Ever listened to "just like ali" by him...excellent and moving
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Sportsnut
Because he's Canadian.
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dvk5453
How does this guynot have more plays ??
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DeeDee-Ramone
I looooove Life is a highway....
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rrtom
That's my kind of Rock since Live is a Highway! Das is meine Art von Rock!! Gruss vom deutschen Fan.
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Prognosis_X
Saw Tom for the second time 2 weeks ago. Both were free! Would've payed 100 bucks to see him, but w/e! Lovin' it
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cmf701
Why is Out of My Head not on here? And why can't I download it from anywhere?
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ZeppelinLad
Where is the love for Big League? I used to listen to that song with my dad and brother when I was about 4 or 5.
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CrazedPandaBear
Tom's my second Uncle:D If anyone wants proof I can show pics of me and him, and tons of autographs to me : )
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Jumperjack
TC is so awesome and so Canadian!
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therabidwombat
So underrated. This guy is a great singer and a great guitarist, and an amazing songwriter and lyricist. One of Canada's best. I know that Life is a highway is his most mainstream and accessible track, and that most people only know that tune...I only wish that people would be introduced to the genius that are his other songs, such as Ragged Ass Road, Flowers in The Concrete, Heartbreak Girl, Glid
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Sraige_Olaiva
Sick charts
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adrenalinezero
No Stranger is definately a great album. Highly reccomended.
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Jumperjack
I love Tom's new album No Stranger, it's all I expected it to be, no surprises, but in this case that is very good.
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sampryce
nah it is a nice kind of way :)
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evilsardines
Kind of creepy.. I saw Tom Cochrane & Red Rider in July, and they were awesome!
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sampryce
apparently my friend knows him and his daughter and he gives her chocolate bars when she goes to their house :S
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supkylee
Big League is amazing <3
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