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Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dead at 84

Washington, United States (AFP) — Canadian singer and performer Gordon Lightfoot, who rose to international fame as a folk music star in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Monday. He was 84. “Gordon Lightfoot passed away this evening in a Toronto hospital at 7:30 pm (2330 GMT),” a post on his official Facebook page read, as obituaries started pouring in from the Canadian press. The immediate cause of death was not made public. “More info […]