Gordon Lightfoot Dies at 84 - CBC Breaking News - 1/5/2023
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- The great Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist passed away this evening in a Toronto hospital. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." R.I.P., Mr. Lightfoot.
His music and voice were unforgettable!!! I never wanted his songs to end. He was the best story teller.❤️😔 RIP fine man.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
He is my all time favourite singer, have got 231 songs from him. I am deeply saddened.
And americans also from a huge huge fan forever .gordy you are missed
Canada, and the world have lost a musical treasure. RIP.
Dear Canada- thank you for sharing your musical treasure Gordon Lightfoot with us. Love from Australia.
So did The United States. I loved the guy.
My heart is heavy. R.I.P. Mr. Lightfoot.
He was such a titan of beautiful songwriting.
Devastating loss for this Australian. He was so loved.
Cincinnati, Ohio Love Gordon Lightfoot.
Thanks for your music
The Sun will never go down on lightfoot.
Thank you Canada for a legend.
Thankfully these legends will never die in the hearts of those who loved their music. These artists are immortal in the true sense of the word.
I was at a Gordon Lightfoot concert some 25 years ago in my city, at the end of the show the audience didn't want him to go, so Gordon came back on the stage just him and his guitar and played a couple more tunes by himself.
in '74, in cheney, washington, he opened with a medley- "if you could read / the patriot's dream". it was so beautiful and intense, he got a standing ovation that wouldn't stop. he stepped back to the mic and said "well, far out!" and continued with the concert. the night was HIS- from that moment.
This is USA calling...
I was lucky enough to catch Mr. Lightfoot at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC during the Endless Wire tour 78/79. Great show!
thank you, USA, for your kind words about our beloved Gordon
His song 'You're Beautiful' is incredible. Not well known but must listen! Is a beautiful love song.
When you heard him, you were just mesmerized, as if you were transported straight into the story. Beautiful voice and a tremendous talent. So sad.
I agree.
I've been a huge fan since I was 7 years old. Thankfully, I was able to see him in concert last year. God speed my dear Mr. Lightfoot.
Sadness. American here who just treasured this guy. I can remember back in the 1980s lying on the floor of my college apartment in NY listening to all four sides of Gord's Gold, his greatest hits album, and wondering what it would be like to be able to write songs like those. What a talent.
I'm from the United States 🇺🇸 and I love listening to his music . He has a big following here. I have a documentary about the last train across Canada 🇨🇦 and it is a documentary that I saw on PBS many years ago. I did see him in concert at the Sonoma County Fair over thirty years ago. His passing is being felt all around the world, including the United States. 😢 thanks for the legacy you left us for years to come.
Liked him ever since he first appeared on the BBC as Gordy Lightfoot in the 60's. RIP Gordon and thanks for all the great songs you gave to the world.
I grew up listening to his music in Mexico. It was my dad’s favorite.
Farewell my friend
Gordon Meridith Lightfoot is and always has been the the very finest singer/songwriter ever in all this lifetime. He and his music will never, ever be forgotten. The whole world Thanks You for all the very finest gifts of music have brought to each and every one of us who appreciates you, and your music you have created.
Mr. Lightfoot's music is timeless and immortal always 😥🇺🇸🦅❤️🤍💙🛠️⚓🔧
Gordon Lightfoot was a beautiful singer and handsome man. I saw him in 1975 when 16 and then 10 years ago with my husband in Red bank. He was great and a terrific songwriter and singer.
I grew up in Saskatoon in the 60`s & 70`s. There was only one tv station and a couple of radio stations so I had Canadian content crammed down my throat. That`s why I know so many of his songs by heart. When I hear a Lightfoot song I think of Saskatchewan. Does anyone remember the movie "Paperback Hero"? Lots of prairie footage with Gordon Lightfoot music. You can`t get more Canadian than that!
trust me, you can't get more Canadian than rolling across Saskatchewan in the middle of winter in a old Volkswagen Beetle
Man...o man. Thank you so much for the gift you shared.
A very nice and distinguished gentleman - I met Gordon at a Canada Day concert in Cape Breton.
In 1994 my shoegaze genera band The Nightshade Project were performing at The Celtic Lodge on Ingonish Beach, Gordon was there but not scheduled to play, however the owner of the lodge persuaded him to do a few songs.
I had previously met him backstage, and told him ‘The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald’ was one of my favorite compositions, and was throughly honored when he invited me to play alongside him on acoustic. He complimented me on my band, and said he really liked the Shoegaze sound.
During two tours of Maritime Canada, fell in love with Canada and it’s people. 🇨🇦
This just ruined my day. Ugh, LOVED his music!
Canadian Icon. RIP. 🙏
Gordon Lightfoot the legend will live on through his music.
Rest in peace Mr. Lightfoot, an American fan.
Loved your music, Gordo. RIP.
So many sad fans today.
I was saddened to hear of his passing now in God's arms meeting him face to face with love, dignity and grace.
R.I.P.😢
My heart is broken! So wished I could have seen him in concert!
I saw Gordon Lightfoot a couple of times at Massey Hall in late teens in early 1970s. Incredible songwriter, poet and performer!
His songs were stories of his personal life, Canada and events. Was fortunate enough to see him, Tom Cochrane, Murray McLaughlin and others at 2005 Mariposa Folk Festival! You will be missed by an entire nation and world wide.
The Troubadour of Canada..........of North America and more...........has passed his guitar on to others..........but...no one can or will replace him for me...............
The Guess Who wrote a beautiful song called Lightfoot in my eyes a great listen.A good song to houner a great singer and songwriter,another part of my youth that is gone.Saw him live at the Fox Theater in Tucson,an unerasable memory.
Wow, RIP beautiful man. I just listened to Sundown an hour ago, I’m sad.
Thank you Mr. Lightfoot.
R.I.P MR LIGHT FOOT!!!!!.YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED!!!!!!! THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loved him and still listen to his oldies but goodies 😢
He was one, that we thought would forever be there. Now he's gone brings us back to reality, and realize, what we all know.
Life, at some point ends. Even for LEGENDS & HEROES!
We'll miss you, deeply Mr. Lightfoot.
His words will live forever
Class act!
unbelievable I only just started listening to his song 'Sundown' a couple of weeks ago
Thank you for your song
A terrible tragedy for Canada.. and therefore the World..
Millions of 12 strings guitars are crying today
A true loss to all of us. Glad to have seen him in concert. He was exceptional.
So did I in Wallingford Connecticut 30 plus years ago. He was great. What a talented and giving man
Thank you Sir, GOD Bless you. Rest in Peace.
Loved his beautiful lyrics and rich voice !
Christian Island, Canadian Railway Trilogy. Patriots Dream, Alberta Bound, Song for a Winters Night, Did She Mention My Name, Cherokee Bend, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and many others.
OMG…I knew this day would come, but I didn’t expect this flood of tears and love for him.. Gordon Lightfoot is my best loved music man.
Condolences to family and friends. Forever In Our Heart. 😢
Not just Canadians, Carefree Highway is one of my favorites.
He was a Icon
I knew to turn to the CBC for a true tribute.
Gordon also did some acting in a movie. He played with Bruce Dern (who I believe was Canadian too) in the movie "Harry Tracy". Dern played in a lot of old westerns like Gunsmoke and he was usually a "bad guy" as he was in Harry Tracy. Gordon was the "Law".
The chords of his heart. Edward Kennedy.
I'll keep an eye on my back door for you. 💜🎶
Listen to the pictures flow
Across the room into your mind they go
Listen to the strings
They jangle and dangle
While the old guitar rings
The minstrel of the dawn is gone
I hope he'll call before too long
And if you meet him you must be
The victim of his minstrelsy.
Ode to Gordon Lightfoot
Now they've gone and done it
They've killed the golden goose
High above the fireplace
Rest his songs of love and truth
doctors sworn to slaughter
Grim Reaper's bent on death
Their needle and the damage done
left him all too short of breath
Now he's feeding daisies
face up to the sky
Watching as the moon rolles past
Let us bid our last goodby
Silver wings of summer
Lift the minstrell on
Carry him to paradise
where the angels sing along
The loon will make her plaintive cry
when winter comes again
What minstrel will console us now
We have lost a dearest friend
That's right in keeping with his style actually. But who are the doctors who did him in??
A great storyteller, and performer. I love his songs andcwhat a humble guy raising money and keeping in contact with the families of the Edmund Fitzgerald victims. What a nice thing to do. I admired him. He sang if you could read my mind much better than Glen Campbell. There will never be anyone else like him.
Sad news, a great loss. From England.
We love so much!!!! How can I go on??
😢
Glen did a magnificent rendition of, ‘ The last Time I saw her Face.’
😪💔💔💔💔💔🙏🏾💐
😢❤️🇨🇦
. . . at times I just don't know
An absolute national treasure.
His music will always be with us .
Thank you Gordie and God Bless.
Gordon's not dead, but alive in a Jesus ... To heir together now...
1/5/23?
lol
I have seen him at least five times live. One time, He played “if you could read my mind” twice in a row.
i've seen him 4 times- once with a standing ovation- after ONE song! he had it ALL.
@@craigrheberling That is really cool.
@@craigrheberling The last time I saw him he disappointed the crowd. He was going to do one more song and he said it was not going to be the Canadian Railroad trilogy. For some reason. Anyway his last song was “old Dan’s records“. Kind of anti-climactic. But it’s a good song.
@@philipstanco6011 was that a recent concert?
@@craigrheberling It was about 20 years ago.