Gordon Lightfoot has passed away.

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[JoeOtterbein]

1. Thank you...

...(tears)

[ornotna]

2. Bummer

RIP Gordon.

[Botany]

3. I feel old now. RIP Mr. Gordon

[blm]

4. Great poet

He was everything.

Legend.
🕯

[Bev54]

5. Oh No

It is the second Canadian artist on the same day. I was a big fan of Gordon Lightfoot.

[LisaM]

8. Who is the other one?

Not good.

[Bev54]

12. Robbie Bachman

[BOSSHOG]

16. Tim Bachman

I believe

[Bev54]

17. Oh could be, I may have gotten it wrong, I just know it wasn't Randy

[Bev54]

18. Sorry you are correct, it was Tim

[BOSSHOG]

19. Any one of them would have been a heartbreak Bev54

Sadly we lose another great rock and roller from the 60s and 70s all too frequently. Let’s crank ‘em up loud tonight.

Would 54 be year of birth? Me too. We had some awesome music to grow up with.

[Bev54]

21. Yes that is year of birth and yes we are losing some of the best and I fear what else

will come this year.

[dweller]

27. Me too 😐

We are going on 70 🫤

ahh, the 70’s were fine times …


✌🏻

[BOSSHOG]

45. Happy 1954 teammate

1968 to 1972 were awesome years for me. I had as much fun as a freshman as I did as a senior. And I (we) didn’t have cell phones or computers.

[LisaM]

30. Ah (I think that was a couple of days ago).

Randy Bachman's lost two brothers this year, how awful.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Noooooooooooooo......

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Damn.

Saw a photo of him several months ago where he looked awful. I'm happy to have seen him in concert back in the 1970s.

[VGNonly]

26. He had a slew of health problems

including abdominal aortic aneurysm and a stroke.

[DENVERPOPS]

31. RIP Gordon

He was in a concert in Boulder a couple of years ago. He was having a great deal of difficulty performing, but still gave it his all.
Why would he schedule a concert in a city 5K above sea level?????? Many of us in the audience were reacting, wondering if he was okay.....

[VGNonly]

32. He was also a heavy smoker.

His previous marriages ended largely due to excessive drinking but did become sober in 82. I saw him in 83; a fine spirited performance.

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. He was extremely lucky to survive that ruptured aneurysm and all that time spent in a coma.

I read that he knew that he'd come close to death more than once.

[VGNonly]

37. My father survived an AAA

but died 2 years later after two heart attacks.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Gordon and your father

were lucky......a Triple A is very bad, as you probably know...............

[greatauntoftriplets]

41. I'm sorry about your father.

Mine had an aortic aneurysm, but he was lucky that it was discovered and repaired before it could rupture. His was discovered by accident while having x-rays for something else. The doctor watched it for several months, then operated. That was scary, but he lived another 12 years.

[Beausoleil]

44. I survived a AAA

in 2019. Fortunately it was caught on a CT scan my doctor ordered.

RIP Gordon.

[Rocknation]

9. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.

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They might have split up, or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all the remains is the faces and names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Rocknation

[dweller]

10. this one ...

https://m.

&pp=ygUqaWYgeW91IGNvdWxkIHJlYWQgbXkgbWluZCBnb3Jkb24gbGlnaHRmb290


memories of my youth
RIP


✌🏻

[greatauntoftriplets]

35. Same here.

[Nanuke]

11. Bought the album Gord's Gold in 1975

It was the summer I graduated high school and played it on my new stereo system I bought with graduation money (Pioneer turntable and Kenwood receiver). My then boyfriend (and later 1st husband) coined “Rainy Day People” as OUR song.

[BOSSHOG]

25. Awesome time for Music

My wife and I wed in 74 and “our” song was Just You and Me by Chicago. So hokie it was wonderful. Rolling towards our 50th anniversary, serenaded by songs from 74. Break out the eight tracks.

[LoisB]

13. This is sad news.

[TalenaGor]

14. oh my goodness :(:(:( Gordon was my first concert back

when I was 7 years old must have been about 1975 or so in redwood city, CA circle star theater(I think)- my dad took me...my youngest years were filled with his music and I have carried his music with me my entire life, as if it were a gift from my dad. Several years ago I was able to get tickets for my dad and step mom to go see him in Colorado - it was a full circle thing - we both gave each other the gift of Gordon Lightfoot!

RIP Gordon...truly one of a kind....

[Sneederbunk]

15. An inspirational minstrel and poet.

Canada's gift to the world.

[applegrove]

20. He led an interesting life. World famous musicians who played Toronto

sometimes visited him and jammed.

[Permanut]

28. One of the giants..

May his music live for a billion years

[lastlib]

33. Here's one of his lesser-known gems:

The Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle:

"Like a toy ship on a mill-pond, she burned all through the night,
And slipped beneath the waves in the morning."

[greatauntoftriplets]

36. I know a woman who was honeymooning on the Bahama Star.

She helped with rescuing passengers from the Yarmouth Castle. She was just 21 at the time, and her husband was seasick and unable to stir from their bunk. That was the most unusual honeymoon story I've ever heard.

[Quixote1818]

40. He had a million lesser-known gems. Few artists were as prolific as he was. nt

[lastlib]

47. Summertime Dream (the album) is chock-full of gems

Protocol
Spanish Moss (that one is personal to me)
The House You Live In
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (of course)
Never Too Close
Too Many Clues In This Room
I'm Not Supposed To Care
Race Among the Ruins

What a songwriter!

[Quixote1818]

39. He was my favorite artist hands down. My DU handle partly comes from his song Don Quixote

[Lasher]

42. I can see her looking fast in her faded jeans

She's a hard-loving woman, got me feeling mean

[OAITW r.2.0]

43. I spent quality time in Owen Sound, Canada

I heard his music, a lot. Bummer.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

46. "This one is really hard to write. Once in a blue moon you get to work and hang out with one of ..."

This one is really hard to write. Once in a blue moon you get to work and hang out with one of the people you admired when you were growing up. I was lucky enough to say Gordon was my friend and I'm gutted to know he's gone. The world is a lesser place without him. I know I speak for all Canadians when I say: thank you for the songs Gordon Lightfoot. Bless your sweet songwriting heart, RIP dear friend. #gordonlightfoot

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