I'm sure he's talked to his kids and they've heard and read about their dad but it's a pretty safe bet that there's a lot that he keeps to himself and always will.
He loves to chat about old times and people in his past but some things are kept close to the vest.
And perhaps that is as it should be.
don't know if you saw this chat with Gordon:
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=14798 - the whole transcript. part about a book:
CHAR: I asked you this one time before, and I know you talked about it at Massey either this last concert series or in 2005, about writing a book about the life of Gordon Lightfoot.
G.L.: Oh yeah…well I’ve decided against doing that. I had to make a decision on that last year and I decided not to do it.
CHAR: No?
G.L.: No.
CHAR: Wow, that’s going to be a disappointment to a lot of people.
G.L.: That’s all right.
CHAR: We will just live your life through your music I guess.
G.L.: My old manager Albert Grossman used to say “it won’t make the coffee taste any different in the morning.” (laughing) Whether there’s a book or not…...it doesn’t matter.
CHAR: No it doesn’t matter….that’s very true. It’s just that in this day and age where you’ve got kids that are writing their life story because they’ve made a movie or had a hit song…and THEY have a life story? They’re only 19! (laughing) It would be nice though. It wouldn’t have to have all the nitty gritty but just as a one focus sort of idea.
G.L.: Ya know…. it would be a nice thing to do….maybe later when I’m doing a memoir or something after I’ve stopped touring. You know really the touring takes up a lot of the time. I don’t know, it really does. We have to stay prepared all the time. We rehearse regularly between times. I don’t have the whole band here….but I sometimes have Michael here, maybe Terry or Rick and Terry.
GL Biography
