Gordon Lightfoot wanted it to be one way, but it was the other way. That's the story of "Sundown," a song about curdled romantic obsession that turned out to be Lightfoot's only American #1 hit.

Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in ...

The final album from Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died May 1 at age 84, will be released on July 14. It is being released via Linus Entertainment, the Canadian independent label ...

Stagecoach was quite a ride last month, and one of the biggest performances came from country star Charles Wesley Godwin. He performed a fantastic cover of Gordan Lightfoot’s 1974 hit song “Sundown” ...

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose enduring folk hits included "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "Sundown," died Monday, his spokesperson told CNN. He was 84. Lightfoot died ...

Think you've heard everything from Gordon Lightfoot? At age 74, the Canadian singer-songwriter known for "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown," "Rainy Day People" and "The Wreck of the Edmund ...

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When we revisited the 50th anniversary of “Dark Side of the Moon” in this space awhile back, it occurred to me that one member of Pink Floyd who played a big role in writing and recording the music ...

The wondrous, dreamlike, 84-year life of Canadian music legend Gordon Lightfoot came to an end last week in Toronto. Lightfoot grew up playing piano and guitar (which he had taught himself to play) ...

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