Gordon Lightfoot refused to give up his life as an entertainer. Against all odds, he made a
comeback and by 2004, he was recording and touring again. Even a stroke he suffered in
2007 that cost him the use of some of his fingers could not hold him back. Lightfoot
practiced tirelessly until he could play the guitar again, and then went back on the road.
After a music career of more than fifty years, Gordon Lightfoot is a member of several
music halls of fame, winner of sixteen Juno Awards, and a Companion of the Order of
Canada. With more than 200 recordings to his credit, including several gold records, his
fellow musicians consider him a song-writing legend.
Gordon Lightfoot has nothing left to prove, but he has an unending passion for writing
and performing his music. As of 2011, at age seventy-two, he is still recording and
touring.
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