Gordon Lightfoot Dies: ‘If You Could Read My Mind’ & ‘Sundown’ Singer-Songwriter Was 84

, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died today at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was 84.

His longtime publicist Victoria Lord revealed the news to Canadian media outlets including the CBC but did not provide a cause of death. Revered in Canada, the four-time Grammy nominee had been scheduled to play Los Angeles-area clubs several times during the past two years but had postponed the dates at least twice.He received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, Canada’s highest honor in the performing arts, in 1997 and inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986.

via Greenwich Entertainment, but those plans were was scuttled amid the early days of the Covid pandemic. In it, fellow Canadian music legend Geddy Lee of Rush says of Lightfoot, “He is one of greatest examples of timeless singer-songwriter.” Bad Religion;s Greg Graffin added, “He’s a Canadian national hero, but he also speaks to a voice for anyone.” Watch a trailer below.

Born on November 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, Lightfoot went from rural choirboy to part of the Canadian folk scene for several years before he burst onto the international music charts amid the singer-songwriter craze. In late 1970, he scored with “If You Could Read My Mind,” a gorgeous, ethereal track featuring his acoustic guitar and supple but assured vocal. Inspired by his divorce, the song hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, drawn from his Reprise LP. It reached No.

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