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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: Daffynition

here’s one of my faves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzo6Otpgj-E


81 posted on 02/19/2010 12:17:18 PM PST by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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To: a fool in paradise

If not, it should have been.


82 posted on 02/19/2010 12:35:23 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Jim Robinson is the onle person that sweets proper nut sweet. leave the man alone."--Sarah-bot)
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To: GLDNGUN

it works. the guitar riff was classic.


83 posted on 02/20/2010 12:37:24 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (yeah, you can quote me.)
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To: Daffynition

“Sundown and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

Favorites of days gone by.


84 posted on 02/20/2010 12:38:16 PM PST by Grunthor (The biggest issue for the past year has been health care and Mitt has been nowhere!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I like that show Barney Miller. It’s about a million times better than what passes for a sitcom today.


85 posted on 02/21/2010 2:32:04 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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