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Corey Hart returns: 'I never thought that I would be doing this again'

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Corey Hart may have advised fans to Never Surrender in his 1985 hit of the same name but in real life he let go of his music career two decades ago.

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Two days after Corey Hart performed his sold-out farewell concert at Montreal’s Bell Centre June 3 to 13,500 people, the 52-year-old Canadian singer is still very emotional, almost melancholy. He played for nearly four hours, 38 songs in all, in his hometown, barely able to sing towards the end, breaking down in tears a few times.

Still handsome, sweet and charismatic with a voice that has held up despite his lack of touring the past decade, he had the crowd, packed to the rafters, eating out of the palm of his hand. It was all too much, saying goodbye after a 30-year career. He is still processing it, he says, in this exclusive interview with the Huffington Post — his only one after the concert and last one about his music for a “very very long time.”

Besides his fans — the most devoted of which he calls his Caravan — he did this concert for his family, daughters India, 18; Dante, 16; River, 14; and son Rain, 10. They had never seen daddy play a proper full concert — the closest was a pair of shows in 2002 at Place Des Arts with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Rain

Days after Corey Hart performed his sold-out farewell concert at Montreal's Bell Centre earlier this month to 13,500 people, the 52-year-old Canadian singer is still very emotional, almost melancholy.

He played for nearly four hours, 38 songs in all, in his hometown. He was barely able to sing towards the end, breaking down in tears a few times. Still handsome, sweet and charismatic with a voice that has held up despite his lack of touring during the past decade, he had the crowd, packed to the rafters, eating out of the palm of his hand. It was all too much, saying goodbye after a 30-year career. He is still processing it, he says, in this exclusive interview with the Huffington Post Canada — his only one after the concert and last one about his music for a "very very long time."

Besides his fans, the most devoted of which he calls his Caravan, Hart did this concert for his family, daughters India, 18; Dante, 16; River, 14; and son Rain, 10. They had never seen daddy play a proper full concert — the closest was a pair of shows in 2002 at Place Des Arts with the Mon

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