On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber subject matter, the last-minute recording session — “The Wreck of the Edmund ...

Lightfoot was doing well in Canada for a while, but it was “If You Could Read My Mind” from 1970 that piqued interest in his music among listeners down south. The song was a big US hit that peaked at ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who helped pave the way for the ’70s folk-rock sound, died of natural causes Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He was 84. His family ...

A fruitful decades-long career ended when Lightfoot died of natural causes at a Toronto hospital (per his verified Facebook page). He was 84. Lightfoot found music as his muse in the late 1950s, ...

Folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian icon who Bob Dylan once referred to as a "rare talent," passed away in Toronto on Monday. Lightfoot was 84 years old. Representative Victoria Lord ...

So many brilliant songwriters came out of Canada in the Sixties — legends like Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Robbie Robertson — that the talents of Gordon Lightfoot are sometimes ...

Folk icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at age 84 of unspecified causes. The Canadian singer-songwriter's death was confirmed by a post on his official Facebook page. Last month he canceled upcoming 2023 ...

Canadian folk-rock icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday night of natural causes, according to his publicist. The singer-songwriter had long ...

Gordon Lightfoot's classic tops Rock Digital Song Sales for the first time. By Kevin Rutherford Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” from 1976, scored major gains in U.S. streams ...