My Lightfoot Story

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3. Welcome to Music Appreciation, anyway! I'd love to hear more

about your music.

I'm so sorry you didn't get to meet Gordon Lightfoot. But your story about the trouble you ran into at the border, before being turned away, reminded me of something record producer Tony Visconti wrote about in his biography. Thin Lizzy had hired him to produce an album for them in Toronto in 1977, but when his plane landed there (Tony was living in.England then) he ran into problems with Immigration. He's American and needed a work permit, and even though he'd already been hired, they told him he'd be putting Canadian producers out of work. Then they made him sit in a holding room with other people for three hours, and he wasn't even allowed to make a phone call. Finally they approved him because, incredibly, they didn't even have Record Producer on their list of professions that they were protecting.

It was such a weird story. But yours is as strange.

It was a shock to hear last night that Gordon Lightfoot was gone. His music was very much part of the soundtrack of so many people's lives.