Lightfoot wore size-nine shoes. The auction contained several lots of leather boots worn by Lightfoot onstage, including a pointy pair of cream-coloured Cuban heel ankle boots ...

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84.

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...

Legendary folk-rock singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. The musician passed Monday evening (May 1) in Toronto, where he had been hospitalized recently. "It is with profound ...

TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, the 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. Representative ...

It feels like Gordon Lightfoot has always been with me. I mean, was there ever a time when “Old Dan’s Records,” “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “Cotton Jenny” ...

A posthumous LP by Gordon Lightfoot, titled At Royal Albert Hall, will arrive on July 14. The double live album was recorded at the prestigious music venue in London, where Lightfoot, who died earlier ...

As news spread May 1 of Canadian songwriting and singing legend Gordon Lightfoot’s death, realizing the full impact of his artistry and the breadth of his catalog felt all the more jolting. To hear ...

Gordon Lightfoot was one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, with poignant melodies set to words that touched on everything from highways and hilltops, to lovers to loneliness. But when it ...

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 ...

The beloved baritone and traveling troubadour first earned widespread notice for his hit "If You Could Read My Mind" in the 1970s Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...