[Daffynition]

[the invisib1e hand]

he was at the dentist when he heard on the radio that he was dead.

Impossible. Old rock 'n' rollers never die.

Rock on, Mr. Lightfoot.

[WashingtonSource]

He hasn’t aged well. He looks like he’s in his 90s.

[a fool in paradise]

"Abe Vigoda says 'Me too!', celebrating 30 years of false death rumors"

[RightOnline]

I love the guy. Fabulous voice, songwriting.

Spoken by an old rock guitarist here, by the way.

[a fool in paradise]

Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot said he was at the dentist when he heard on the radio that he was dead.

Only his recording career is...

[GreenLanternCorps]

I'm not dead yet!

[ansel12]

I want to believe him but he isn’t even a doctor.

[Krankor]

One day when I grew older and I found I could not hold her
She took on a fine young skipper who soon run her up on a boulder

[Springman]

Ping.

[RC one]

"I haven't had so much airplay on my music now for weeks."

I still listen to Summertime Dream regularly. I played it to death on my road trip out west this past summer in fact. We listened to "Race Among the Ruins" while racing among ruins. My GF had never heard of him until then and now she has that CD in her car's CD player right now. Gordon Lightfoot is awesome.

[CaptRon]

Man, I just pulled out his old CDs yesterday. Big fan.

[SuziQ]

Does he sound as good as he always did? His voice was like silk.

[fanfan]

He's not dead, Jim.

Thanks for the ping, Springman.

[Recovering_Democrat]

The folk legend,...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...

Clearing up the confusion, the news reporter he was talking to said, "No, sir, we reported your career was dead."

[traderrob6]

One of my favorites...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

[GinaLolaB]

I am so glad he is not dead. He is one of my favorites.

[cydcharisse]

I guess it’s too much of a cliche for anyone else to use, but I’m not proud, I’ll say it: The news of his death was premature.

[OrangeHoof]

I loved Gordon's work in the 70s and 80s but he developed a musical alzheimers somewhere in the 90s. His later CDs were almost a parody of his earlier work, strumming mindlessly about trains and boats.

I'll be very sad to see him pass but I'm glad to know he's going to resume playing concerts.

[GreyMountainReagan]

When it gets to rough for the cook to feed ya....time to man the lifeboats.

[Oztrich Boy]