Lightfoot

Breadcrumb Trail Links Music Entertainment Published May 01, 2023  •  1 minute read Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Tributes came fast across social media following the news of the death of beloved Candian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot on Monday night. Advertisement 2 This…

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the most respected folk-rooted musicians to emerge in the 1960s, died on Monday in a Toronto hospital. He was 84. His publicist, Victoria Lord, confirmed his death to The Times. A cause of death was not given. Lightfoot had recently canceled his 2023 tour dates due to undisclosed health issues.Along with Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, Lightfoot is regarded as one of the most important Canadian pop musicians of the ’60s…

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot died Thursday at the age of 84, according to his tour publicist. The Orillia, Ont.-born singer-songwriter, known for such hits as The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald and If You Could Read My Mind, had most recently cancelled all of his North American tour date due to “health issues” that weren’t…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Music 'We thank you for respecting his privacy as he continues to focus on his recovery' Published Apr 11, 2023  •  Last updated 16 minutes ago  •  1 minute read Gordon Lightfoot in his music room in his Bridle Path home in Toronto on February 4, 2020. Photo by Craig Robertson /Toronto Sun Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.…

Article content Without Canadian country-folk icon Ian Tyson, there may never have been Gordon Lightfoot as we know him. Article content So said the Sundown singer-songwriter, 84, from his Toronto home following the news of Tyson’s death on Thursday at the age of 89 at his ranch near Longview, Alta. Article content “He was five years my senior,” Lightfoot, a native of Orillia, Ont., said Friday. “I can honestly say without Ian, there probably wouldn’t be … (his voice trails off). He was the first person to record a…