National Music Centre launches special exhibit dedicated to Tom Cochrane
Posted Oct 28, 2016 4:15 pm.
Last Updated Oct 28, 2016 4:59 pm.
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It’s a mad, mad world these days at the National Music Centre thanks in part to the facility’s latest exhibit honouring Canadian music legend Tom Cochrane.
Officials have put something together in honour of the 25th anniversary of the smash album “Mad, Mad World.”
Music lovers can find it on the fifth floor and it features awards and artifacts from Cochrane, including his 1963 Gretsch guitar used in the music video for “Big League” along with the outfit he wore for the music video “Life is a Highway.”
Cochrane says it’s a tremendous honour to be in the NMC with some of his friends, like K.D. Lang.
“They do everything with so much care and class, they treat everything with so much class, it’s incredible,” he told 660 NEWS. “It’s great to be able to display some of this stuff, it’s not everything but it’s a lot of the impactful things.”
He calls it humbling but flattering at the same time and believes every Canadian artist should be proud of what’s happening in Calgary.
“To be able to record on a console that the Stones recorded on, it’s great,” he said.
“To me it’s like the epicentre, Alberta in general, Calgary specifically and Edmonton have been so supportive over the years. It seemed like we were here every second week when were starting out as Red Rider,” the Manitoba-based singer exclaimed. “To have it here, I think it’s a good decision.”
“I kind of felt like a ghost here walking in, back in the spring EMI committed all of the stuff to the archive people at the University of Calgary,” he said. “You start feeling a bit like an artifact but we’re still doing it and I feel like I’m 15 when I’m up on stage.”
Cochrane says it’s the music that’s been keeping him young.
His message to the fans, come and check out the exhibit and what the facility has to offer.
“It really bodes well for Canada culturally, we need more of this and this is the epicentre. It’s a wonderful building and I’m proud to be a part of it.”
It’s the first NMC music exhibition to feature content from the EM Music Canada Archive which was donated to the University of Calgary earlier this year.
Showcase: Tom Cochrane will run until April 30th, 2017.
