Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died aged 84 FMTNews FMTLifestyle
Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot was best known for his evocative lyrics and melodic compositions.
Canadian news outlets CTV and the CBC cited a family representative, Victoria Lord, as confirming his death. The cause was not immediately available. Lightfoot achieved the height of his popularity in the 1970s with songs from albums such as “Sundown,” “Summertime Dream” and “Dream Street Rose” that built on his guitar-driven folk roots to produce more rock and pop-oriented songs.Lightfoot’s catalogue of compositions tops 200 songs, a number of which have been covered by such performers as Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Richie Havens.
Lightfoot’s 1976 epic “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” – about the drowning of 29 sailors when a freighter sank in a storm on Lake Superior – remains one of fans’ most loved songs. In it, Lightfoot coupled a soaring melody with poignant lyrics about the sailors’ last hours.
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