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Famed music producer Bob Ezrin renouncing U.S. citizenship, returns to Canada

‘In the last few years, it seems as if America is split in half,’ says the producer of Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Lou Reed’s Berlin

Growing up in Toronto, veteran music producer Bob Ezrin sat in a basement listening to his uncle’s extensive collection of jazz records, trying to wrap his mind around the “myth and magic” of New Orleans and the city’s sublime musicians. Ezrin’s ideas on patriotism would seem to be at odds with the actions of Canadian hockey icon Wayne Gretzky, who in 2009 was named a Companion of the Order of Canada but has been criticized for not travelling to Ottawa to pick it up. Named as honorary captain of the Canadian squad for the recent U.S.-Canada 4 Nations tournament final in Boston, the Great One faced backlash for giving multiple American players a thumbs up on the ice before the game.

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