Gordon Lightfoot Forums - Lightfoot's Looks

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Originally Posted by Don Quixote (Post 167757)

BTW, in answer to Sir John Fowles' 6-year-old question, I think that it was Phil Ochs who wrote an article about GL and said that he looked like a Greek statue. The article had a strange tone--a bit of admiration and a bit of envy at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Don Quixote (Post 167757)

Funnily enough today whilst trying to find something else I found the printout I made on June 23rd 1997 of Phil's article when it was a feature on Matthew Fifer's old website as originally put up on the Newsgoup in one of Wayne's FAQ pages
(one that does not seem to have made it onto his website lightfoot.ca unless anybody knows different
http://sites.google.com/site/philipdavidochs/philochs:abio-bibliography
The Ballad of Gordon Lightfoot." Broadside 60 (15 July 1965): 5-6. Very complimentary article on Gordon Lightfoot.
you can read the complete article as repeated on
the Newsgroup later in 2005 if you see plumguru Doug's posting at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...18360132?hl=en
the relevant paragraph to which DQ is referring is:-
"The first time you see Lightfoot, if he's not singing you might walk right by him, mistaking him for a statue. He's got classic Greek features with an Argosy magazine jawline, and long flowing blond locks of hair always neatly combed. So you see, he doesn't have to write songs, he could become a sculptor's model"
Today he might have to get an obligatory haircut first!!