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From the mid-’70s until he retired in 2017, Harrison was the dean of local rock critics, author of literally thousands of stories in The Province and the Georgia Straight that gave...
- A Critic Ahead of His Time
- 'Walking Treasure Trove of Canadian Music History'
- 'A Fun Guy Who Loved Life'
David Hawkes, music producer, promoter, radio DJ and a close friend of Harrison, says Tom was ahead of his time. "He was really great at basically identifying what was going to be big," Hawkes told CBC News. "I think about a band like Skinny Puppy." Hawkes says many journalists at the time didn't know how to write about the band, considered to be a...
Long-time friend Stuart Derydeyn says Harrison was a "walking treasure trove of Canadian music history as well as international music history." Derdeyn, an entertainment reporter at the Vancouver Sun, The Province and Post Media, says he knows very few people in music journalism who had the kind of impact that Harrison did in Canadian music as a wh...
Canadian punk musician and leader of the band DOA, Joe Keithley, says Harrison will be remembered as the "rock historian" in Vancouver and B.C. "He knew more about music than the next 10 people put together," he said. Keithley, who is also a city councillor in Burnaby, says Harrison played on DOA's hockey team and helped raise money for the Vancouv...
Dec 28, 2022 · Remembered as one of the true taste-making giants of the Vancouver music scene, Tom Harrison has died following a reported stroke on Christmas day.
- Mike Usinger
Dec 29, 2022 · Tom Harrison’s name is synonymous with rock music in Vancouver. Since the mid-1970s, he has written about pop and rock. Harrison leaves a rich legacy as being remembered as someone who...
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- Darrian Matassa-Fung
Dec 29, 2022 · Tom Harrison, who wrote about the Vancouver music scene for nearly four decades as a rock critic for The Province newspaper, has died.
Dec 29, 2022 · Remembered as one of the true taste-making giants of the Vancouver music scene, Tom Harrison has died following a reported stroke on Christmas day. He is being remembered today as a writer with endlessly good taste who was instrumental in his support of bands that others were often initially afraid to champion.
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Dec 30, 2022 · Vancouver music critic Tom Harrison spent a lifetime covering some of the world's biggest rock stars at sold-out stadiums, but it was the hometown acts trying to make a name for...
