Fireworks (The Tragically Hip song)

"Fireworks" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in November 1998 as the third single from their sixth studio album, Phantom Power. The song was very successful in Canada, peaking at number 9 on Canada's RPM Singles chart.^[1]

Content

The song makes references to the 1972 Summit Series (particularly the famous game-winning goal of the series), hockey legend Bobby Orr, and the fitness test administered via the Canada Fitness Award Program.

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart^[1]	9

References

1 2 "Top Singles - Volume 68, No. 16, February 08 1999". RPM. Retrieved 2010-09-15.

The Tragically Hip

Gord Downie Rob Baker Johnny Fay Paul Langlois Gord Sinclair Davis Manning

Studio albums	Up to Here Road Apples Fully Completely Day for Night Trouble at the Henhouse Phantom Power Music @ Work In Violet Light In Between Evolution World Container We Are the Same Now for Plan A Man Machine Poem

Live albums	Live Between Us

EPs	The Tragically Hip

Compilations	Hipeponymous Yer Favourites

DVDs	Heksenketel That Night in Toronto

Singles	"Small Town Bring-Down" "Highway Girl" "Blow at High Dough" "New Orleans Is Sinking" "Boots or Hearts" "38 Years Old" "Trickle Down" "Little Bones" "Three Pistols" "Twist My Arm" "Long Time Running" "On the Verge" "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" "Fifty Mission Cap" "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" "At the Hundredth Meridian" "Looking for a Place to Happen" "Fully Completely" "Land" "Grace, Too" "Greasy Jungle" "Nautical Disaster" "So Hard Done By" "Scared" "Thugs" "Ahead by a Century" "Gift Shop" "700 Ft. Ceiling" "Flamenco" "Springtime in Vienna" "Poets" "Something On" "Fireworks" "Thompson Girl" "Bobcaygeon" "My Music at Work" "Lake Fever" "The Completists" "Freak Turbulence" "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" "Silver Jet" "The Darkest One" "Vaccination Scar" "Summer's Killing Us" "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" "In View" "The Lonely End of the Rink" "Yer Not the Ocean" "Family Band" "Love Is a First" "Morning Moon" "Speed River" "At Transformation" "Streets Ahead" "Radio Show" "In a World Possessed by the Human Mind"

Related articles	Discography Another Roadside Attraction Canadian rock Trailer Park Boys Made in Canada The Sweet Hereafter Side projects: Coke Machine Glow Battle of the Nudes The Grand Bounce Secret Path Stripper's Union Stripper's Union Local 518

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