Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk music, rock music and country music. He is credited with helping define the pop-folk voices of the 1960s and 1970s. He is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend.
Lightfoot songs, including "For Lovin 'Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness" - hit number one on the US country chart with Marty Robbins cover in 1965 - and "Black Day in July "about the 1967 Detroit riots, bringing him widespread recognition in the 1960s. The success of the chart in Canada with its own recording began in 1962 with No 3 hit "(Remember My Me) The One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 and/or AC charts with hits "If You Can Read My Thoughts" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and has many other hits that appear in the top 40.
Some of Lightfoot's albums achieve gold and multi-platinum status internationally. His songs have been recorded by famous artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., The Kingston Trio, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Herb Alpert, Harry Belafonte, Scott Walker, Sarah McLachlan, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Jack Jones, Bobby Vee, Roger Whittaker, Tony Rice, Peter, Paul and Mary, Glen Campbell, The Irish Rovers, Nico, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Weller, Nine Pound Hammer, and Ultra Natà ©.
Robbie Robertson of the Band described Lightfoot as a "national treasure". Bob Dylan, also a fan of Lightfoot, calls him one of his favorite songwriters and, in the often-cited tribute, Dylan observes that when he hears Lightfoot's song he hopes "it will last forever". Lightfoot was a leading musical at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. He received his honorary Doctor of Law (1978) honors degree in 1979 and the Canadian Order in 2003. In November 1997, Lightfoot was awarded the Governor-General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest award in performing arts. On February 6, 2012, Lightfoot was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Ontario Lieutenant Governor. June of that year saw its induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. On June 6, 2015, Lightfoot received an honorary doctorate of music in his hometown of Orillia from Lakehead University.
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Initial years
Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, to Jessica and Gordon Lightfoot, Sr., who owns a large dry cleaning company. His mother recognized Lightfoot's music talent from an early age and educated him to be a successful child player. His first public show was "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral" (Irish bedtime song) in the fourth grade, which was broadcast through his school's public address system on a parent's day event. As a young man, he sings, under the direction of choirmaster Ray Williams, in the choir of St. Paul in Orillia. According to Lightfoot, Williams taught him how to sing with emotion and how to have confidence in his voice. Lightfoot is a soprano boy; he appears regularly on local Orillia radio, performs in local operas and oratorio, and gets exposed through various Kiwanis music festivals. At the age of twelve, after winning the competition for a boy whose voice has not changed, he made his first appearance at Massey Hall in Toronto. As a teenager, Lightfoot studied piano and taught himself to play drums and percussion. He held a concert at Muskoka, a resort area north of Orillia, singing "for a few beers."
Lightfoot is done extensively throughout high school, Orillia District Collegiate & amp; Vocational Institute (ODCVI), and self-taught to play folk guitar. The formative influence on his music today is the 19th century American songwriter, Stephen Foster. He is also a high school board-and-field athlete and organizes school records for pole shots and jumps, and becomes a nose starting to tackle the championship team at the Georgian Bay college campus at his school. His athletic and scientific skills earned him a scholarship at the Schulich Music School at McGill University and the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music.
Lightfoot moved to California in 1958 to study jazz composition and orchestration for two years at Westlake College of Music, Hollywood, which has many Canadian students. To support himself, he sings in demonstration tapes and writes, organizes, and manufactures commercial jingles. Among its influences were the folk music of Pete Seeger, Bob Gibson, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, and The Weavers. He rented an inn in Los Angeles for a period of time, but missed Toronto and returned there in 1960, living in Canada since, although he has done a lot of work in the United States, under H-1B visas.
Upon returning to Canada, Lightfoot performed with The Swinging Eight, a group featured on CBC TV Country Hoedown, and with Gino Silvi Singers. He soon became famous in coffee houses oriented to Toronto's folk music. In 1962, Lightfoot released two singles which were a local hit in Toronto and received several impressions elsewhere in Canada. "(Remember Me) I One" reached No. 3 on CHUM radio in Toronto in July 1962 and was the top 20 hit in the Montreal CKGM, then the most influential Canadian Top 40 radio station. The next single is "Negotiation"/"It's Too Late, He Wins"; reached No. 27 on CHUM in December. He sings with Terry Whelan in a duo called "Two-Tones". They recorded a live album released in 1962 entitled "Two-Tones at the Village Corner" (1962, Chateau CLP-1012).
In 1963, Lightfoot traveled in Europe and in the United Kingdom, and for a year he hosted the BBC TV show Country and Western Show, returning to Canada in 1964. He appeared at the Mariposa Folk Festival and began to develop a reputation as a songwriter. Ian and Sylvia Tyson recorded "Early Mornin 'Rain" and "For Lovin' Me"; a year later the two songs were recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary; Other artists who recorded one or both of these songs included Elvis Presley, Chad and Jeremy, George Hamilton IV, The Clancy Brothers, and Johnny Mann Singers. Creating recording artists such as Marty Robbins ("Ribbon of Darkness"), Leroy Van Dyke ("I Do not Say"), Judy Collins ("Early Afternoon Rain"), Richie Havens and Spyder Turner ("I Can not Make It Again") , and The Kingston Trio ("Early Afternoon Rain") all achieved graphics success with Gordon Lightfoot material.
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United Artists year
In 1965, Lightfoot signed a management contract with Albert Grossman, who also represented many American folk players, and signed a recording contract with United Artists who released his version "I'm Not Saying" as a single. Appearances at the Newport Folk Festival, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and New York City Hall enhanced followers and strengthened his reputation. 1966 marks the release of her debut album Lightfoot! , which brought him to greater exposure both as a singer and songwriter. The album featured many now famous songs, including "For Lovin 'Me," "Early Mornin' Rain," "Steel Rail Blues," and "Ribbon of Darkness". With the power of the album Lightfoot! , which combines Canadian and universal themes, Lightfoot became one of the first Canadian singers to achieve domestic fame without moving to the United States to develop it.
To commence the Hundred Canadian year, the CBC commissioned Lightfoot to write "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967. Between 1966 and 1969, Lightfoot recorded four additional albums for United Artists: The Way I Feel (1967), Did He Name My Name? (1968), Back to Here on Earth (1968), and live recording Sunday Concert (1969), and consistently placed singles in top 40 Canada , including "Go-Go Round", "Spin, Spin", and "The Way I Feel". His biggest hit of the era was the rendition of Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", which reached No. 1. 3 on the Canadian charts in December 1965. Did He Name My Name? Black Day in July, "about the 1967 Detroit Riot. The next April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, radio stations in 30 countries drew songs to" fan the fire ", even though the song was a request for racial harmony. at that time the station owner was more concerned about playing the song "that made people happy" and not "what makes people think." Unhappy at the lack of support from United Artists, he defected to Warner Bros. Records, scoring his first international hit in early 1971 with " If You Could Read My Mind ".
Lightfoot's albums are currently well-received overseas, but do not produce single hits. Outside of Canada, she remains better known as a songwriter than a player.
His success as a living player continued to grow throughout the late 1960s. He started his first Canadian national tour in 1967, and also performed in New York City. Between 1967 and 1974, Lightfoot toured Europe and was well received on two Australian tours.
UA continued to release a "Best of" album compilation in the 1970s even after Lightfoot became the next success at Warner Bros./Reprise.
Warner Bros./Reprise
Warner Bros./RepriseLightfoot signed a contract with Warner Bros./Reprise in 1970 and scored a great success in the United States with "If You Could Read My Mind", which sold over a million copies in early 1971 and earned a gold award. The song originally appeared on the 1970s bad album Sit Siti Young Stranger . After the success of the song, the album is re-published with a new title If You Can Read My Mind ; reached No. 5 nationally and represents a major turning point in Gordon Lightfoot's career. The album also features a second recorded version of "Me and Bobby McGee", as well as "The Pony Man", "Your Love's Return", and "The Minstrel of The Dawn".
Over the next seven years, he recorded a series of successful albums that made him a singer-songwriter:
- Summer Side of Life (1971), with songs "Ten Degrees and Getting Colders", "Miguel", "Cabaret", "Nous Vivons Ensemble", and title song
- Don Quixote (1972), with "Beautiful", "Looking at the Rain", "Christian Island (Georgian Bay)", and the title song, which is a concert favorite
- Old Dan's Records (1972), with the title song, two-sided singles "It's the Same Old Obsession", and the song "It's Worth Believin '" and " Can not Depend on Love "
- Sundown (1974). In addition to the title track, it includes "Carefree Highway", "Seven Island Suite", "The Watchman's Gone", "High and Dry", "Circle of Steel", and "Too Late for Prayin '"
- Cold on the Shoulder (1975). Along with the title song is the song "Bend in the Water", "The Soul Is the Rock", "Rainbow Trout", "All the Lovely Ladies" and hit "Rainy Day People"
- The double Gile's Gold compilation (1975) contains nine new versions of his most popular songs from the United Artists era
- Summertime Dream (1976), along with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" are "I'm Not Relished To Care", "Race Among the Ruins", "Spanish Moss" "Never Too Close", and the title song
- Endless Wire (1978) with "Daylight Katy", "If Children Had Wings", "Sweet Guinevere", new version of "The Circle Is Small" from Back to Here on Earth , and title track
During the 1970s, Lightfoot's songs cover a wide range of subjects, including "Don Quixote", about the famous Cervantes literary character, "Ode to Big Blue", about the widespread whale killing, "Beautiful", about the joys of simple love, "Carefree Highway, "about the freedom of the open road, the" Protocol, "about the futility of war, and" Alberta Bound, "inspired by a lonely teenage girl named Grace whom she met on a bus while traveling to Calgary in 1971.
In 1972 Lightfoot contracted Bell's palsy, a condition that paralyzed his face for a while. The misery limits his tour schedule but Lightfoot goes on to give big hits: in June 1974, Sundown's classic single "Sundown" from Sundown's album went to No.1 on the American and Canadian charts. It will be the number one hit in the United States. He did it twice on NBC's The Midnight Special series. "Carefree Highway" (around Arizona State Route 74 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a follow-up single from the same album. It charts in the Top 10 in both countries. Lightfoot wrote it after traveling from Flagstaff, Arizona on Interstate 17 to Phoenix.
In late November 1975 Lightfoot read a Newsweek magazine article about the disappearance of Edmund Fitzgerald's SS Edmund Fitzgerald, who drowned on November 10, 1975, on Lake Superior during a violent storm with the loss of all 29 crew members. The lyrics in his song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ", released the following year, are substantially based on facts in the article. It reached number two on the Billboard chart of the United States and was the number one hit in Canada. Lightfoot appeared at several of its twenty-five-year anniversary ceremonies, and resumed personal contact with family members of those killed at Edmund Fitzgerald .
"Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald " continue to receive heavy broadcasts in many classic rock stations. In 1978, Lightfoot had another top 40 hit in the United States Hot 100, "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It in Your Eyes)," which reached number 33.
During the 1980s and 1990s Lightfoot recorded six original albums and compilations for Warner Bros./Reprise: Dream Street Rose (1980), Shadows (1982), < i> Salute (1983), Middle East Night (1986), another compilation Gord Gold, Vol. 2 (1988), Waiting To You (1993), and A Painter Passing Through (1998).
The Dream Street Rose album has a folk-pop sound created by Lightfoot over the past decade. In addition to the title track, it includes songs such as "Ghost Cape Horn" and "On the High Seas". It also includes the composition of Leroy Van Dyke's 1950s "The Auctioneer," a number like bluegrass which was a staple concert for Lightfoot from the mid-60s to 80s.
The Shadows album represents a departure from the 1970s acoustic sounds and introduces an adult-contemporary sound. Songs like "Shadows" and "Thank You for the Promises" contain fundamental sadness and resignation. The American released 1982 single "Baby Step Back" marks his final time in the top 50 in the country. The 1983 album Salute did not produce a hit single; The 1986 Middle East Night album has some contemporary Adult songs like "A Passing Ship", "Morning Glory", and "I'll Tag Along" (Middle East Night). One from Middle East Night , "Anything for Love", makes Billboard Country & amp; Western Chart.
In April 1987, Lightfoot filed suit against composer Michael Masser, claiming that the Masser melody for the song "The Greatest Love of All" - recorded by George Benson (1977) and Whitney Houston (1985) - stole 24 bars from Lightfoot's 1971 press song " If You Can Read My Thoughts ". The transition section that started "I decided long ago never goes in anyone's shadow" of the Masser song has the same melody as "I never thought I could feel like this and I have to say I do not understand; I do not know where we are wrong but the feeling is gone and I can not get it back "from Lightfoot song. Lightfoot then states that he does not want anyone to think that he has stolen his melody from the Masser.
Lightfoot rounded off the decade with its follow-up compilation Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 , at the end of 1988, which contained a re-recorded version of his most popular songs, including the re-make of the 1970 song "The Pony Man". The original has been fast in speed, acoustics, and about three minutes. The new version is slower, clocking in four minutes plus.
Lightfoot performed with famous Canadian artist k.d. lang at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
During the 1990s Lightfoot returned to its roots and recorded two albums. Waiting To You (1993) included songs such as "Restless", "Wild Strawberries", and Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells". 1998's A Painter Passing Through reintroduces a more reminiscent sound on the original recording, with songs like "Much to My Surprise", "Red Velvet", "Drifters", and "I Used to Be a Country Singer ". Throughout the decade, Lightfoot plays about 50 concerts a year. In 1999 Rhino Records released Songbook , a set of four Lightfoot recording CDs with rare and unreleased tracks since the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s plus a small book hardback for his fans who described how he made his songs and gave facts about his career.
In April 2000 Lightfoot recorded live concerts in Reno, Nevada - an hour event broadcast by CBC in October, and as a special PBS throughout the United States. The PBS stations offer concert videotapes as appointments, and a cassette and DVD were released in 2001 in Europe and North America. This is the first Lightfoot concert video to be released. In April 2001 Lightfoot performed at the Tin Pan South Legends concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, closing the show. In May he performed "Ring Them Bells" at Massey Hall in honor of Bob Dylan's 60th birthday.
Disease and return to do
In January 2002 Lightfoot has written 30 new songs for the next studio album. He recorded guitar and vocal demos of some of these new songs. In September, before the second concert of two nights standing in Orillia, Lightfoot suffered a severe stomachache and was flown to McMaster Medical Center in Hamilton, Ontario. She underwent surgery for a ruptured aortic abdominal aneurysm, and she remains in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Lightfoot suffered a six-week coma and tracheostomy, and he underwent four surgical operations. All remaining 2002 concert dates were canceled. More than three months after being taken to McMaster Medical Center, Lightfoot was released in December to continue its recovery at home.
In 2003 Lightfoot underwent advanced surgery to continue treatment for his stomach condition. In November he signed a new recording contract with Linus Entertainment and began training with his band for the first time since his illness. Also in 2003, Borealis Records, a related label for Linus Entertainment, released Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot . In this album, various artists, including The Cowboy Junkies, Bruce Cockburn, Jesse Winchester, Maria Muldaur, and The Tragically Hip interpret the song Lightfoot. The last song on the album, "Lightfoot", is the only song previously not released by Lightfoot. It was compiled and done by Aengus Finnan.
In January 2004 Lightfoot completed the work on his album Harmony, most of which he recorded before his illness. The album was released on the label of her new home Linus Records on May 11 that year. It was the original 20th album and included a single and new video for "Inspiration Lady". Other songs are "The Lonely Cloud," "Sometimes I Want," "Flying Blind", and "No Mistakes About It". The album contains a cheerful yet reflective song called "End of All Time"
In July 2004 he made a surprise comeback performance, the first since falling ill, at Mariposa in Orillia, performing a solo "I'll Tag Along". In August he performed a five-track solo set in Peterborough, Ontario, with the benefit of flood relief. In November he made his comeback to the concert stage with two sold-out shows in Hamilton, Ontario.
Lightfoot returned to the music business with his new album selling well and an appearance on Canadian Idol , where the top six contestants each performed his songs, culminating in a group performance - on their own instruments - from his > Canadian Railroad Trilogy . In 2005, he made a low-key tour called Better Late Than Never Tour .
On September 14, 2006, while in the middle of the show, Lightfoot suffered a mild stroke that eventually left him without the use of his middle finger and ring finger in his right hand. He returned to the show nine days later and for a short time used a replacement guitarist for a more difficult guitar work. Since early 2007, Lightfoot has re-used his right hand and played all parts of the guitar in concert as he wrote it. He continues to perform.
While the tour is being planned for 2008, Lightfoot manager, Barry Harvey, died at the age of 56 on December 4, 2007. At the end of 2009, Lightfoot toured 26 cities.
In February 2010, Gordon Lightfoot was a victim of a Twitter trick that came from Twitter, when later CTV reporter David Akin posted on Twitter and Facebook that Lightfoot had died. Lightfoot was on a dentist's appointment as rumors spread and found when listening to the radio in his drive home. Lightfoot dispelled the rumor by calling Charles Adler from CJOB, the DJ and the radio station he heard reporting his death, and conducting an interview stating that he was alive and well. In 2012, Lightfoot went on tour, telling the sold-out crowd June 15 at the Ottawa National Art Center that he is still doing sixty times a year. Lightfoot played two shows at NAC after its induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Lightfoot appeared in the 100th Gray Cup in November 2012, performing "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," and was very well received.
Lightfoot's first tour in the UK in 35 years was announced in 2015, with 11 dates across the UK, Ireland and Scotland between May 18, 2016 and June 1, 2016 announced today. According to its website, the dates of the 2017 tour include the United States and Canada.
Lightfoot played at Canada's 150th anniversary in Parliament Hill, July 1, 2017, introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Prime Minister mentioned that Mr. Lightfoot had played the exact same stage 50 years earlier, on Canada's 100th birthday.
In a 2016 interview with The Calgary Herald Lightfoot said: "At this age, my challenge is to do the best show I can... I am greatly improved from where I am and the seriousness that I take it."
Legacy
Gordon Lightfoot's musical career has spanned over five decades, producing over 200 recordings. He helped define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s, with his songs recorded by artists such as Bob Dylan, Gene Clark, Dan Fogelberg, Jimmy Buffett, and Jim Croce. Canadian Band The Guess Who recorded a song titled "Lightfoot" on their 1968 album Wheatfield Soul ; the lyrics contain many Lightfoot titles.
Lightfoot biographer, Nicholas Jennings, sums up his legacy in this way: "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and wrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.The music describes the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 70s, He is undoubtedly Canada's greatest songwriter. "
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Lightfoot sound, both in the studio and on the tour, focused on Lightfoot baritone sound and twelve string acoustic guitar based on the people. From 1965 to 1970, Red Shea's main lead guitarist was an important supporter, with bassist Paul Wideman and John Stockfish filling the setting.
In 1968 bassist Rick Haynes joined the band, and guitarist Terry Clements joined the following year. Shea left the band touring in 1970, but continued to record with Lightfoot until 1975. She hosted her own Canadian variety show, played with Ian Tyson, and became the band's leader for the 1980s TV show Tommy Hunter on the CBC. Shea played in most of Lightfoot's initial hits. Haynes and Clements remain with Lightfoot and compose the core of the band.
In 1975, Pee Wee Charles added a steel guitar pedal to a Lightfoot song. Drummer Barry Keane joined in the following year and in 1981 keyboardist Mike Heffernan completed the ensemble. The five-part backup band remained intact until 1987, when Charles left the band to operate the radio station in Southern Ontario.
Three members of the band Lightfoot have been dying for years: Red Shea in June 2008 of pancreatic cancer, Clements on 63 on February 20, 2011, following the original stroke and bassist John Stockfish from natural causes on August 20, 2012 at 69.
Haynes, Keane and Heffernan continued to tour and record with Lightfoot, after being added in 2011 guitarist Carter Lancaster from Hamilton, Ontario, a "great player," according to Lightfoot.
Personal life
Lightfoot has been married three times. Her first marriage in April 1963 was a Swedish woman, Brita Ingegerd Olaisson, with whom she had two children, Fred and Ingrid. They divorced in 1973, the marriage ended partly because of disloyalty. Lightfoot has acknowledged that his music tour and loyalty difficulties in long-distance relationships contribute to the failure of at least two relationships:
The song "If You Could Read My Mind" was written as a reflection of her messy marriage. At the request of his daughter, Ingrid, he displays the lyrics with a few changes now: the phrase "I'm just trying to understand feelings you do not have" is changed to "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that
After being alone for 16 years between marriages, Lightfoot married Elizabeth Moon in 1989. They have two children: Miles and Meredith. They divorced in 2011 after the separation that Lightfoot has said has lasted nine years.
Lightfoot also has two other children from the relationship between her first and second marriage: Gaylen McGee and Eric Lightfoot.
Lightfoot married for the third time on December 19, 2014 at Rosedale United Church to Kim Hasse.
In order to stay fit to meet the demands of touring and public performances, Lightfoot works at the gym six days a week, but declares in 2012 that he is "fully prepared to go whenever I am taken." He calmly stated, "I've nearly died a few times, once almost real... I have more incentives to continue now because I feel I am on loan, in terms of age."
Lightfoot band members have shown loyalty to him, both as a musician and friends, recording and performing with him for 45 years.
He said in 2016 that he does not plan to return to the song at a later date when he concludes it was "isolating things" for him earlier in his career, affecting his family's life.
Awards and awards
As an individual, despite the numerous awards associated with his album and single, Gordon Lightfoot has received sixteen Juno Awards - for the top folk singers of 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977, and as a composer in 1972 and 1976. He has received the ASCAP award for songwriting in 1971, 1974, 1976, and 1977, and has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. In 1974, Lightfoot's song "Sundown" was named pop album of the year by American Music Operator. In 1980 he was named a male recording artist from Canada for a decade, for his work in the 1970s.
Lightfoot was named Toronto Celebrity Maple Leafs captain for the 75th anniversary of the NHL in 1991-1992.
Lightfoot was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998. In May 2003 he was named the Companion of the Order of Canada, the state the. the highest civilian honor. Lightfoot is a member of the Order of Ontario, the highest honor in the province of Ontario. In 1977, he received a Vanier Award from Jaycees Canada. In 2007, Canada Post awarded Lightfoot and three other legendary Canadian musicians (Anne Murray, Paul Anka, and Joni Mitchell) with stamps that highlighted their names and pictures. On June 24, 2012, Lightfoot was sworn in to Songwriters Hall of Fame in a ceremony in New York City, along with Bob Seger.
Between 1986 and 1988, Lightfoot's friend Ken Danby (1940-2007), a realist painter, worked on a large 60 x 48 inch Lightfoot photo in white outfits that he wore on the Middle East Night album cover. The picture is illuminated by the sun, creating a visual icon image of the singer.
On June 16, 2014, Lightfoot was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by SOCAN at the SOCAN 2014 Awards in Toronto.
On October 23, 2015, Lightfoot was honored with a 4-meter bronze statue in his hometown of Orillia, Ontario. The statue, called "Golden Leaf - A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot" features Lightfoot sitting cross-legged, playing an acoustic guitar under the gold maple leaf arch. Many leaves depicting scenes from Lightfoot's greatest 1975 album, Gord's Gold .
Discography
See also
- Canadian Stone
- Canadian music
References
External links
- Canadian Quotes
- Lightfoot page in Canadian Encyclopedia
- CBC Digital Archive: Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian People's Prize Winner
- Gordon Lightfoot on IMDb
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