RIP Gordon Lightfoot

[brian64]

Another of the greats leaves us. RIP Gordon...thanks for the songs.

 

[warren]

I still remember the first Lightfoot song I heard, Only a Gogo Girl! So many great songs sung wonderfully. RIP indeed.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Gordon's the only musician I'd ever seen live - about a year ago, in fact.
I was fairly close to the stage, and I think we made eye contact near the end of If You Could Read My Mind.
I was in a complicated place romantically at the time, you see, and had a bit of dew in my eyes. At the song's end he was looking in my direction, and said "Press on!"

Rest in peace, Mr Lightfoot.

 

[Zero]

Rest in peace...

 

[rmpeeps]

Did She Mention My Name

 

[yanoJL]

Whuuut? Ugh!
So many wonderful songs.
Yeah, we lost a great one today.

 

[Reggie]

Wow! I had no idea. Great artist ! RIP

 

[canucklehead]

 

[romaso]

A favorite. RIP.

 

[dino]

May his memory be eternal.

 

[Elric]

That is a huge loss. RIP.

 

[UB 40]

Ah yes, I remember Radio Luxemburg in 1970 playing „If you Could Read my Mind now“ on the portable Blaupunkt radio in the kitchen after school at the age of eight. Though I didn’t know the words, it somehow touched me. What a beautiful melody.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Darn.

Sundown ……………

 

[blackpowderpiper]

Sad to hear this. Unfortunately, death is coming for us all. Count me in the number that considers Gordon one of the best singer/songwriters to ever live. Sad news indeed.

 

[ssjones]

Sadly, we never saw him until last year, in a small local theater. It was show that was supposed to have happened pre-Covid. He was embarrassingly bad. He couldn't sing or really barely move. He stayed in one of our hotels and I was at the show with the owner of our company. After the show, he said "I hope he doesn't die in our hotel". If you have a chance to see your musical heroes, when they can still perform, do it. RIP Gordon, your legacy will outlive your latter years.

Bob Dylan said of Lightfoot: “I can’t think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don’t like. Every time I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last forever".

 

[captpat]

I was in college at Marquette Michigan when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down -- what a filthy night that was. RIP Gordon.

 

[btp79]

Sadly, we never saw him until last year, in a small local theater. It was show that was supposed to have happened pre-Covid. He was embarrassingly bad. He couldn't sing or really barely move. He stayed in one of our hotels and I was at the show with the owner of our company. After the show, he said "I hope he doesn't die in our hotel". If you have a chance to see your musical heroes, when they can still perform, do it. RIP Gordon, your legacy will outlive your latter years.

I felt the same way the last time I saw Willie Nelson.

 

[jmill208]

Sad to hear this. Unfortunately, death is coming for us all. Count me in the number that considers Gordon one of the best singer/songwriters to ever live. Sad news indeed.

Sad. The witch of November will steal us all.

 

[mso489]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald made the ship a legend. The cook who greets his shipmates with, "It's been good to know you," is an powerful lyric. My late wife and I picnicked at the monument at White Fish Bay on Lake Superior that commemorates the sinking.

Some Great Lakes mariners have pointed out that there have been a number of shipwrecks of that same size and loss of life, but the song made the Fitzgerald an emblem for them all.

Likewise, the song is an emblem for a long and productive career as the music lives on.

 

[kcghost]

When a guy gets to be 84 you only going to be to say you saw him. Usually at that time just about all the music that was in him is gone. The guy had an amazing career but was well thought of on both sides of the border. R.I.P.