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Offline Chris

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Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« on: February 18, 2010, 08:03:22 PM »
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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.

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Re: Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2010, 08:33:06 PM »
Thank God, Gord's awesome.
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Offline Chris_

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Re: Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2010, 11:18:15 PM »
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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Re: Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2010, 11:30:15 PM »
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Re: Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2010, 10:52:44 AM »
But Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead .
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Offline USA4ME

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Re: Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2010, 11:05:51 AM »
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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Re: Gordon Lightfoot is not dead
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2010, 11:16:10 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on February 19, 2010, 10:52:44 AM
But Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead .

As is Chevy Chase's career.
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