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Gordon Lightfoot, a folks music and mushy rock icon of the Nineteen Seventies, is lifeless … in line with his publicist.
Gordon, finest identified for his hit, “If You Might Learn My Thoughts,” handed away Monday night in Toronto, the place he’d been hospitalized. His publicist, Victoria Lord, didn’t say why he was getting medical remedy or launch a explanation for demise.
The folks singer and songwriter grew to become a Canadian nationwide treasure, but in addition scored large hits all through the ’70s on the U.S. Billboard charts — like ‘Learn My Thoughts,’ “Sunset” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
Lightfoot was a 4-time Grammy nominee, and he is been inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame, in addition to the Canadian Music HOF.
He had a rep for being a health nut and had remained lively on the street … touring the U.S. and Canada for years earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic compelled him to take a break.
In actual fact, he was nonetheless touring earlier this yr, till an announcement only a few weeks in the past that he was canceling all remaining dates as a consequence of an unannounced “health-related” concern.
He is survived by his 6 youngsters and his spouse Kim Hasse, to whom he is been married since 2014.
Gordon was 84.
RIP
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