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imported_Next_Saturday · 04-05-2010, 11:28 AM

I don't remember seeing this, so please forgive me if it's a repeat:

http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=19567

Dead man walking
Richard Burnett

Lightfoot has stayed in touch with the widows of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot wants you to know that rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated

If you could read Gordon Lightfoot's mind right now, what a tale his thoughts would tell. Except I don't have to because I got the Canadian music icon on the phone a couple days after Canwest reported on Feb. 18 that he had died.

"I was in my car driving from the dentist with the radio on when the DJ said I was dead!" Lightfoot explains. "It became an obituary. Then they played a strain of If You Could Read My Mind. It gave me a bit of a shock. I put my foot on the gas and got to [my] office and the phone was lit up like a Christmas tree! It was also weird for my kids - my eldest daughter got very emotional that night."

Despite some serious health problems over the years, today Lightfoot is healthier than he's ever been. "When I gave up alcohol [in 1982] the gym became my substitute."

Lightfoot famously got his start when Ian Tyson introduced him to rock's first great manager, NYC-based Albert Grossman, in 1964. Grossman also managed Bob Dylan, The Band and Janis Joplin. "I'd see Bob Dylan in the office. And Janis was in a corner reading a book."

Lightfoot was a favourite of Johnny Cash ("We did a duet on his TV show") and his songs have been covered by rock royalty, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan. And Lightfoot explored his relationship with his former lover Cathy Evelyn Smith - famed for her drug connections to The Rolling Stones and John

Belushi - in his number one Billboard hit Sundown. "She came to see me in concert in Vancouver six months ago and looks healthy and happy."

So does Lightfoot.

"I am happy," he says. "Today I have control of my own destiny."

Gordon Lightfoot
At Place des Arts, April 8

04-05-2010, 11:28 AM	#103
imported_Next_Saturday Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 443	Dead man walking I don't remember seeing this, so please forgive me if it's a repeat: http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=19567 Dead man walking Richard Burnett Lightfoot has stayed in touch with the widows of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot wants you to know that rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated If you could read Gordon Lightfoot's mind right now, what a tale his thoughts would tell. Except I don't have to because I got the Canadian music icon on the phone a couple days after Canwest reported on Feb. 18 that he had died. "I was in my car driving from the dentist with the radio on when the DJ said I was dead!" Lightfoot explains. "It became an obituary. Then they played a strain of If You Could Read My Mind. It gave me a bit of a shock. I put my foot on the gas and got to [my] office and the phone was lit up like a Christmas tree! It was also weird for my kids - my eldest daughter got very emotional that night." Despite some serious health problems over the years, today Lightfoot is healthier than he's ever been. "When I gave up alcohol [in 1982] the gym became my substitute." Lightfoot famously got his start when Ian Tyson introduced him to rock's first great manager, NYC-based Albert Grossman, in 1964. Grossman also managed Bob Dylan, The Band and Janis Joplin. "I'd see Bob Dylan in the office. And Janis was in a corner reading a book." Lightfoot was a favourite of Johnny Cash ("We did a duet on his TV show") and his songs have been covered by rock royalty, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan. And Lightfoot explored his relationship with his former lover Cathy Evelyn Smith - famed for her drug connections to The Rolling Stones and John Belushi - in his number one Billboard hit Sundown. "She came to see me in concert in Vancouver six months ago and looks healthy and happy." So does Lightfoot. "I am happy," he says. "Today I have control of my own destiny." Gordon Lightfoot At Place des Arts, April 8 __________________ "I'll see you all next Saturday..."