Editing Red Rider (section)

=== As Tom Cochrane & Red Rider ===

In what became a strong signal regarding the future of the band, they officially became known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider.  The line-up consisted of Cochrane, Greer and Webster with new member [[Ken Sinnaeve|Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve]] on bass.  For the first album under this revised name (their fifth overall), the group issued the self-titled ''[[Tom Cochrane and Red Rider]]'' LP in May 1986. Sessioneer [[Graham Broad]] ([[Go West (band)|Go West]] and [[Roger Waters]]' band) played drums on the album, recorded in [[Wales]] at [[Rockfield Studios]] and [[Metalworks Studios]] in [[Mississauga]], [[Ontario]] over the early months of 1985, produced by Patrick Moran.  After the release of the album, Randall Coryell was added to the official lineup for live dates, as was guitarist Peter Mueller; this six-piece version of the band would last through early 1990.

In 1987 Capitol released a compilation CD titled ''[[Over 60 Minutes with Red Rider]]'', covering the band's first four albums. Also in 1987, the band, who had been nominated 11 times for [[Juno Awards]], finally was awarded one for Group of the Year.

In the fall of 1988, the band (now a sextet) released their sixth album, ''[[Victory Day (album)|Victory Day]]'', which contained the track "Big League", about the death of a young hockey player. The young man's father approached Cochrane on the day of a concert, mentioning that his son was a big fan of Red Rider's song "Boy Inside The Man".  Cochrane asked the man if his son was going to be attending the concert and the man responded that his son had recently died in a car accident.<ref>[http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/tomcochrane.html MelodicRock.com interview with Tom Cochrane.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511234817/http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/tomcochrane.html |date=2008-05-11 }} Accessed September 27, 2008.</ref> Cochrane wrote the song as a memorial, and it became a big hit in Canada (reaching #4), as well as a top 10 hit on US rock radio.

Red Rider's final album, ''[[The Symphony Sessions (Red Rider album)|The Symphony Sessions]]'', which was recorded on March 17 and 18, 1989, and released in December 1989, saw the band performing with the [[Edmonton Symphony Orchestra]], as [[Procol Harum]] had done seventeen years before. The band broke up in early 1990, shortly after the album was released.  Cochrane embarked on a successful solo career, employing Webster and Sinnaeve as part of his backing band.

The three-[[compact disc|CD]] [[box set]] ''Ashes to Diamonds'', which includes material by both Red Rider and Cochrane as a solo artist, was released in 1993.