“Dead” singer Gordon Lightfoot says he feels fine
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) ñ Gordon Lightfoot is very much alive despite reports on Thursday that said the legendary 71-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter had died while on a North American tour.
Lightfoot, whose hits include “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, “Sundown”, and “Carefree Highway”, was said to have been pronounced dead by a prank message posted on the Twitter micro-blogging service, according to the website of the Globe and Mail newspaper. Reports of his death spread quickly on radio, television, and news websites.
Lightfoot, noted for richly crafted lyrics and a deep, smooth voice, was reached by telephone by Toronto’s CP24 news station and said he was informed of his death by a report he heard on his car radio as he drove to his office.
“Everything is good,” he told CP24. “I don’t know where it come from, it seems like a bit of a hoax. I was quite surprised to hear it myself… I feel fine.”
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