Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's answer to U.S. singer-songwriters who provided the soundtrack for baby boomers coming of age amid a countercultural revolution, died Monday, his publicist said. He was 84.

“I just like to stay there and be a part of the totem pole and look after the responsibilities I’ve acquired over the years,” he said in a 2001 interview. While Lightfoot’s parents recognized his ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gordon Lightfoot studio portrait Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. The news was confirmed by ...

FILE - Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, strums backstage at the Westbury Music Fair on Sept. 8, 1987, in Westbury, N.Y. Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits include Early Morning ...

TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer whose hits included “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died Monday. He was 84.

TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, the legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday. He was 84.

The beloved baritone and traveling troubadour first earned widespread notice for his hit "If You Could Read My Mind" in the 1970s Folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot, whose poetic songs captured the ...