The Tragically Hip's Fully Completely Reissue With Rob Baker
\u201cEven though it was the middle of summer, it was cold and wet,\u201d Rob Baker remembers, \u201cand after a full day in the studio, there was nothing to do but go back to where we were staying and watch the Olympics that were happening in Barcelona\u2026and they were still talking about Canada and what happened with Ben Johnson four years earlier.\u201d\n\nThe Tragically Hip were in the UK, recording what would be their third full studio album at Battery Studios, a facility protected from the rest of the surrounding grimy north west London neighborhood of Willesden Green by a big metal gate\u2026after recording the last two albums away from home\u2014Up To Here was done in Memphis and Road Apples required to move to New Orleans\u2014a trip to London had seemed like a good idea, a chance to get away from all the distractions back home in Kingston, Ontario.\n\nIt may have been dreary on the outside, but the building itself was full of history\u2026Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart, The Cure, The Who and dozens more had all made classic albums here.\xa0\n\nAnd when The Hip wrapped up the sessions for the album that would be called \u201cFully Completely,\u201d they had an idea that they had created something extraordinary.\xa0 But what they didn\u2019t know is they were about to enter the imperial phase of their career, a time when almost everything went right\u2026.\n\nThe album would eventually sell a million copies in Canada alone\u2026and here\u2019s how it happened.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices