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Tom Cochrane, D.Mus (hon), (born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, whose story-telling songs have earned him the nickname “The thinking man’s rocker.” His best known song is the hit single “Life Is a Highway.” He has also performed with the band Red Rider (alternatively known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)
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 the...
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Top 10 Tom Cochrane Songs
Life Is A Highway
Life Is A Highway (1992)
Sinking Like A Sunset
No Regrets
Mad Mad World
Life Is A Highway [1992]
Washed Away
I Wish You Well
Life Is A Highway [July 1992]
All The King's Men
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Top 10 Tom Cochrane Albums
Mad Mad World
Ragged Ass Road
Songs Of A Circling Spirit
Xray Sierra
No Stranger
Life Is a Highway
Victory Day
Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
Hang On To Your Resistance (The Early Years)
X-Ray Sierra
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