Gordon Lightfoot Obituary – Cause of Death: Legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84.
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, Gordon Lightfoot died at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto on May 1, 2023, at the age of 84. His declining health had caused him to cancel his tour three weeks earlier.
Lightfoot is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada’s greatest songwriter and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend.
Lightfoot’s songs, including “For Lovin’ Me”, “Early Morning Rain”, “Steel Rail Blues”, “Ribbon of Darkness”—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins’s cover in 1965—and “Black Day in July”, about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit “(Remember Me) I’m the One”, followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with the hits “If You Could Read My Mind” (1970), “Sundown” (1974); “Carefree Highway” (1974), “Rainy Day People” (1975), and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40.
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