{"id":119606,"date":"2023-05-02T09:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119606"},"modified":"2023-05-02T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:09:02","slug":"legendary-folk-singer-gordon-lightfoot-dies-at-84-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119606","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Folk Singer Gordon Lightfoot Dies at 84 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119606\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-119607 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gordon-L-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gordon-L-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gordon-L.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot, known for songs such as \u201cIf You Could Read My Mind\u201d and \u201cSundown\u201d, passed away May 1, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. No cause of death was given. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music and was credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canadian\u2019s greatest songwriter and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot\u2019s discography comprises of 20 studio albums, 16 greatest hits albums and 47 singles, including \u201cFor Lovin\u2019 Me\u201d, \u201cEarly Morning Rain\u201d, \u201cRibbons of Darkness\u201d, \u201cTalking in Your Sleep\u201d, \u201cCanadian Railroad Trilogy\u201d, and \u201cThe Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Gordon Lightfoot\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot, known for songs such as \u201cIf You Could Read My Mind\u201d and \u201cSundown\u201d, passed away May 1, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. No cause of death was given. He was 84. Lightfoot achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music and was credited with helping to define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[30835],"class_list":["post-119606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-legendary-folk-singer-gordon-lightfoot-dies-at-84-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119606"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}