Gordon Lightfoot Dies: Legendary Singer-Songwriter Was 84

Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot in the 2010s, circa 1970s
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Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote the iconic folk song “The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald,” Gordon Lightfoot, has died at the age of 84. He died of natural causes at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, just a few weeks after canceling his upcoming tour due to health issues.