Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84
The Canadian singer-songwriter wrote classics like "If You Could Read My Mind," "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
by Neda Ulaby
May 01, 2023
2 minutes
Canadian folk-rock icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84.
Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday night of natural causes, according to his publicist. The singer-songwriter had long suffered from serious health problems that caused extensive hospitalization in 2002.
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