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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If not, it should have been.
it works. the guitar riff was classic.
“Sundown and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Favorites of days gone by.
I like that show Barney Miller. It’s about a million times better than what passes for a sitcom today.
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