[Gordon] Lightfoot responds to death reports: 'I'm fine'

CBCNews.ca ^ | February 18, 2010 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

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.

The report was discovered to be untrue within minutes of the news being posted.

B.C. Fiedler Management, Lightfoot's concert tour promoters, put out a quick statement proclaiming Lightfoot "is alive and in good health" and that the report was "false and completely without merit."

"This is just an unfortunate prank," said promoter Bernie Fiedler.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/18/lightfoot-alive.html?ref=rss#ixzz0fwPwMDBO

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[Daffynition]

Thanks for the smiles ...ya Git-che Gu-meeeeeeeeeee. ;)

[SuziQ]

*snort*

[fanfan]

He's not dead, Jim.

Thanks for the ping, Springman.

[RC one]

yeah, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a masterpiece, right up there with Bye Bye Miss American Pie. I still remember the first time I ever heard it. I was hooked on Gordon Lightfoot afterwards. I prefer the happier upbeat nature of I'd do it Again and Race Among the Ruins though.

[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."

[FrdmLvr]

That was not Gordon Lightfoot.

[traderrob6]

One of my favorites...

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

[Noumenon]

Drive By Truckers....

[Daffynition]

LOL ... did I make a fox pass? I can't even get YouTube to play tonight! Geesh.

Forgive me! I meant no disrespect to the good man or his music. I got my wires crossed.

[GLDNGUN]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

One of the coolest, well-done songs ever. Very haunting. Makes you feel like you were there as it happened.

[gov_bean_ counter]

"Said fellers it's been good to know ya"

Number 5 on my IPOD Pop playlist.

[traderrob6]

Haunting is an excellent description.

[traderrob6]

Sorry for the screw up, here’s Gordon at his best...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009/11/34-years-ago-today.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.

[traderrob6]

As MT said, exaggerated.

[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.

[Weirdad]

Probably my favo(u)rite too. I’m gonna put on his “Live in Reno” DVD right now, now that this reminds me how much I like him...

[GreyMountainReagan]

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