The band played almost non-stop for just under three hours, with frontman Gord Downie refusing to let up, sweat pouring down his emotion-filled face. We'll use words like "lifetime achievement" and "history" and "legacy," but legacy is a heavy word. Gord Downie wipes tears from his eyes in the middle of the Tragically Hip's Grace, Too1:03Over the past few weeks, interviewers asked me: "What did you learn from The Tragically Hip?" People who'd never seen themselves in the mirror, never recognized themselves as being this kind of Canadian. Before The Tragically Hip, we were a huge country made huger because of the hole in it, which is where our identity was supposed to be.

Source: CBC News August 21, 2016 16:41 UTC