The signs may be gone but the mayor of an Alberta community says the love for hometown rock band Nickelback remains.
Hanna, Alta., about 220 kilometres northeast of Calgary, removed in May signs declaring it was "Proud to be the home of Nickelback."
Nickelback, which formed in 1995, is one of the most commercially successful Canadian bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and ranking as the 11th bestselling musical act of all time. In May 2013, readers of Rolling Stone magazine named Nickelback the second worst band of the 1990s, behind Creed."Either you love them or you hate them," Hanna Mayor Danny Povaschuk said in an interview Tuesday."I think it's an envy thing, for being as high profile as they are," Povaschuk added. "There's been no dirt dug up on them, so I don't understand the hate. I would say 90 per cent of the people in Hanna love them.
Povaschuk said there was a serious collision near one of the signs last spring when a vehicle was doing a U-turn to get to the sign. However, he said highway safety isn't the reason the signs were removed.An older electronic sign just off the highway is being refurbished and a new "Home of Nickelback" sign will be added, the mayor said.
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