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  2. Red Rider - Wikipedia

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    Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States , although " Lunatic Fringe " from their second album, 1981's As Far as Siam , became popular on US album-oriented rock radio.

  3. Lunatic Fringe (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Lunatic Fringe" is a song by the Canadian rock band Red Rider from their 1981 album, As Far as Siam. The song reached No. 11 on the rock radio airplay chart in Billboard in September 1981, [2] and was awarded a SOCAN Classic award in 2009 by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada for reaching the 100,000-airplay mark on (Canadian) domestic radio.

  4. Tom Cochrane - Wikipedia

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    Red Rider included Ken Greer, Jeff Jones, Peter Boynton and Rob Baker. Bruce Allen managed the band from their debut until 1985. Cochrane recorded six studio albums with Red Rider plus a live album, a best-of album, and a box set. By 1986, the band was billed as "Tom Cochrane & Red Rider".

  5. Ragged Ass Road (album) - Wikipedia

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    Ragged Ass Road is the third solo studio album by Red Rider frontman Tom Cochrane, released in October 1995.The album was named for Ragged Ass Road, a street in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

  6. Big League (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Big League" is a song by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, released in 1988 on the album Victory Day.One of the band's most successful and popular singles, the song was a charting hit in both Canada and the United States, peaking at #4 in the Canadian RPM Hot 100 and #9 in the American Billboard Rock Tracks chart.

  7. As Far as Siam - Wikipedia

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    Lunatic Fringe", the band's most famous song, is about what composer Tom Cochrane saw as an alarming rise of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was inspired by a book he read about Raoul Wallenberg. [2] The song is featured in the 1985 high-school wrestling movie Vision Quest , the Miami Vice episode " Smuggler's Blues ", the My Name Is Earl ...

  8. Ken Greer - Wikipedia

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    Greer is the youngest of seven children born into a musical family in Toronto, Ontario.He grew up in the North Toronto area. He played the pedal steel guitar. After a Red Rider hiatus during most of the 1990s, Greer was involved in numerous musical projects including Big Faith, Hunter-Greer and Gowan.

  9. Tom Cochrane and Red Rider - Wikipedia

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    Tom Cochrane and Red Rider is the fifth studio album by the Canadian rock band Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, released in 1986 [1] The album earned Cochrane two Juno Awards for Composer of the Year and Group of the Year. A remastered version was released by EMI in 2004.