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[Gordon] Lightfoot responds to death reports: 'I'm fine'
CBCNews.ca ^ | February 18, 2010 | staff reporter

Posted on 02/18/2010 5:32:26 PM PST by 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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To: Joe 6-pack

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


41 posted on 02/18/2010 6:13:03 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition

*snort*


42 posted on 02/18/2010 6:13:26 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Daffynition; Springman; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Squawk 8888; headsonpikes; AntiKev; ...
He's not dead, Jim.

Thanks for the ping, Springman.


43 posted on 02/18/2010 6:16:25 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Daffynition
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.
44 posted on 02/18/2010 6:19:17 PM PST by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: Daffynition
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."

45 posted on 02/18/2010 6:22:03 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat (,)
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To: Daffynition

That was not Gordon Lightfoot.


46 posted on 02/18/2010 6:32:04 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: Daffynition

One of my favorites...

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


47 posted on 02/18/2010 6:38:48 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Viking2002

Drive By Truckers....


48 posted on 02/18/2010 6:40:28 PM PST by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: FrdmLvr
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.


49 posted on 02/18/2010 6:43:06 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: the invisib1e hand
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.
50 posted on 02/18/2010 6:46:35 PM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: GLDNGUN
"Said fellers it's been good to know ya"

Number 5 on my IPOD Pop playlist.

51 posted on 02/18/2010 6:49:51 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: GLDNGUN

Haunting is an excellent description.


52 posted on 02/18/2010 6:51:55 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: gov_bean_ counter

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

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


53 posted on 02/18/2010 6:54:21 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Daffynition
I am so glad he is not dead. He is one of my favorites.


54 posted on 02/18/2010 7:07:09 PM PST by GinaLolaB
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To: Daffynition

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.


55 posted on 02/18/2010 7:23:23 PM PST by cydcharisse (`)
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To: cydcharisse
As MT said, exaggerated.
56 posted on 02/18/2010 7:35:53 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Daffynition
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.

57 posted on 02/18/2010 8:04:14 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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To: FrPR

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...


59 posted on 02/18/2010 8:22:33 PM PST by Weirdad (A Free Republic, not a "democracy" (mob rule))
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To: Daffynition

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


60 posted on 02/18/2010 8:27:36 PM PST by GreyMountainReagan ("For Death is in charge of the clattering train")
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