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Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter, dies aged 84

Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot has died at age 84
Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot has died at age 84. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, best known for folk-pop hits such as If You Could Read My Mind and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 84, his family has announced.

His longtime publicist Victoria Lord said Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday evening.

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