Canadian folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died aged 84.
The Sundown hitmaker died in hospital in Toronto on Monday, his representatives confirmed to publications, though no cause of death has yet been given.
In the 1960s, Lightfoot’s music spread throughout Canada and the US, with If You Could Read My Mind hitting the number five spot on the Billboard chart in 1971. Despite the accolades, Lightfoot said in a 2008 interview with The Globe and Mail: ‘Sometimes I wonder why I’m being called an icon, because I really don’t think of myself that way.
The likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Barbra Streisand are amongst those who covered Lightfoot’s songs Photographer: Michael Ochs Archives Source: Michael Ochs Archives
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