Billy Joel paid tribute to the late Gordon Lightfoot by performing the Canadian songwriting legend’s “Sundown” Friday at the Piano Man’s monthly visit to Madison Square Garden. “You might know him ...
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in ...
The wondrous, dreamlike, 84-year life of Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot came to an end last week in Toronto. Lightfoot grew up playing piano and guitar (which he had taught himself to play) ...
Legendary folk-rock singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. The musician passed Monday evening (May 1) in Toronto, where he had been hospitalized recently. "It is with profound ...
For a man whose music has persisted for nearly 50 years-making him possibly the only songwriter to have songs recorded by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley-Gordon Lightfoot seems to attribute a ...
Now that he s over 70, his frame and voice a good deal frailer than they were in his prime, it s easy to forget that, for decades, the Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot defined what it meant to be ...
With his first show in four months, Gordon Lightfoot filled out Bass Concert Hall Tuesday night with a patient audience. There were noted rough patches to the 70-year-old Canadian songwriting legend’s ...
A fruitful decades-long career ended when Lightfoot died of natural causes at a Toronto hospital (per his verified Facebook page). He was 84. Lightfoot found music as his muse in the late 1950s, ...