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ColoradoSue · 10-26-2002, 12:04 PM

Cathy:
The Hamilton Spectator kindly e-mailed the entire article to me yesterday (being that it wasn't on their website)...here it is:

The Hamilton Spectator Entertainment, Friday, October 25, 2002, p. D03

Lightfoot remains in intensive care
by Paul Morse

Gordon Lightfoot is slowing improving and periodically conscious even as he remains in a Hamilton hospital intensive care unit. "He is getting better every day slowly, the prognosis is good, but he is in serious condition," said the folksinger's manager, Barry Harvey, yesterday. "There are some long-term things that have to resolve themselves," Harvey said. Lightfoot, 63, is one of Canada's best known musicians who wrote hits such as Early Mornin' Rain, Sundown and The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. He was rushed to McMaster University Medical Centre on Sept. 8 with internal bleeding from a rare weakness in an abdominal blood vessel, and underwent a series of complicated surgeries. Lightfoot is periodically conscious, Harvey said, but refused to provide further details. "It's alarming to all of us that (recovery) has taken this length of time, and his family is dealing with this as best they can," Harvey said. "We're just happy it's going in the right direction, and every day he seems to become a little stronger." Hamilton Health Sciences has included a Gordon Lightfoot page on its Web site updating his condition at www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca. Hospital spokesperson Heather Pullen said Lightfoot's family has asked that details about the singer-songwriter's condition remain private. Lightfoot was born in Orillia on Nov. 17, 1938. He came onto Toronto's folk music scene in the early 1960s and recorded five groundbreaking albums by 1969. Then, in 1970, he recorded If You Could Read My Mind, his breakthrough song that rocketed up the music charts in the United States, and has become one of the best known songs in popular music history. pmorse@thespec.com or Stoney Creek Bureau at 905-662-3811. © 2002 The Hamilton Spectator. All rights reserved.

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10-26-2002, 12:04 PM	#16
ColoradoSue Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Denver Posts: 69	Cathy: The Hamilton Spectator kindly e-mailed the entire article to me yesterday (being that it wasn't on their website)...here it is: The Hamilton Spectator Entertainment, Friday, October 25, 2002, p. D03 Lightfoot remains in intensive care by Paul Morse Gordon Lightfoot is slowing improving and periodically conscious even as he remains in a Hamilton hospital intensive care unit. "He is getting better every day slowly, the prognosis is good, but he is in serious condition," said the folksinger's manager, Barry Harvey, yesterday. "There are some long-term things that have to resolve themselves," Harvey said. Lightfoot, 63, is one of Canada's best known musicians who wrote hits such as Early Mornin' Rain, Sundown and The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. He was rushed to McMaster University Medical Centre on Sept. 8 with internal bleeding from a rare weakness in an abdominal blood vessel, and underwent a series of complicated surgeries. Lightfoot is periodically conscious, Harvey said, but refused to provide further details. "It's alarming to all of us that (recovery) has taken this length of time, and his family is dealing with this as best they can," Harvey said. "We're just happy it's going in the right direction, and every day he seems to become a little stronger." Hamilton Health Sciences has included a Gordon Lightfoot page on its Web site updating his condition at www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca. Hospital spokesperson Heather Pullen said Lightfoot's family has asked that details about the singer-songwriter's condition remain private. Lightfoot was born in Orillia on Nov. 17, 1938. He came onto Toronto's folk music scene in the early 1960s and recorded five groundbreaking albums by 1969. Then, in 1970, he recorded If You Could Read My Mind, his breakthrough song that rocketed up the music charts in the United States, and has become one of the best known songs in popular music history. pmorse@thespec.com or Stoney Creek Bureau at 905-662-3811. © 2002 The Hamilton Spectator. All rights reserved. [This message has been edited by ColoradoSue (edited October 26, 2002).]