The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris on February 18, 2010, 08:03:22 PM
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He thought you should know.
Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot said he was at the dentist when he heard on the radio that he was dead.
The folk legend, whose hits include If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, took the news lightheartedly and was soon on the phone with Toronto-based all-news station CP24.
"I'm fine, everything is good. I don't know where it comes from. It seems like a bit of a hoax or something," the 71-year-old singer said. "I was quite surprised to hear [it] myself.
"I haven't had so much airplay on my music now for weeks."
The initial reports of Lightfoot's death appeared on Canwest news sites on Thursday afternoon, spreading instantaneously across many blogs and Twitter posts.
I don't want to go on the cart... (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/18/lightfoot-alive.html?ref=rss)
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Thank God, Gord's awesome.
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I saw him at the Armadillo World HQ in Austin many years ago. Sat on the floor in about the 2nd row - it was a very laid back concert and he was pure golden. Sundown has always been one of my very favorite songs, and also Don Quixote. I have a Gord's Gold CD in my car as I type. I'm glad he's not dead.
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But Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead .
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Maybe not, but Harry Chapin is dead, so in remembrance of him let's kill Gordon Lightfoot.
BTW, Lightfoot is Canadian. Shouldn't he have been a featured singer at the opening of the Olympics? I think so.
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But Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead .
As is Chevy Chase's career.