Gordon Lightfoot: Not Dead

On the way home from work yesterday afternoon, I heard on the local news-talk station that Gordon Lightfoot had died. About 45 minutes later, I heard that he hadn't. That's right, friends, Gordon Lightfoot became the latest target of a death hoax. Oddly enough, just last weekend while in Michigan with family, I was commenting that I wanted to see Lightfoot before he died. He had a stroke a few years ago, and only recently started touring again. I missed seeing him in Evansville, Indiana last year since I wanted to be closer to him with Kristen being pregnant... and currently he has no shows planned for Indiana in the near future. Nevertheless, I was caught thinking how strange it was that I had brought the matter up so recently.

Lightfoot, for his part, seems to be having fun with the situation. He commented to a Toronto TV station that his music was getting more airplay in the hour preceding his interview than it had months preceding his 'death'.

For more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/19/gordon-lightfoot-still-alive