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But then on September 14, 2006, he suffered a minor stroke in the middle of a show, leaving him unable to use the middle and ring finger of his right hand for a while and necessitating that another guitarist sub in for his parts. He returned to work, writing songs, recording albums, playing gigs, and even appearing on Canadian Idol. It was something of a miracle he pulled through.

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It was three months before he could go home and a full two years before he returned to normal. Imagine the doctor who had to perform the tracheotomy on the neck that contained one of Canada’s most-treasured voiceboxes. He was airlifted to Hamilton’s McMaster Medical Centre and spent the next six weeks in a coma. In 2003, between shows in his hometown of Orillia, his aorta suddenly ruptured in his abdomen. Lightfoot had been in frail health for years. Wow, I thought to myself, That’s the most CBC thing EVER. I’m going to give you a scenario and you just go with it, okay? Here it is: Gordon Lightfoot has just died. “Okay, now let’s see how you think on your feet. Halfway through, the woman conducting the audition broke in. I’d been allowed to prepare for the audition as if it were a real radio show, so I was in control of everything. It had to be in-person during the same hours I’d be working if I got the job. Years ago when I was on a walkabout between jobs, I auditioned for an on-air position at the CBC. She later became infamous as the person who helped John Belushi inject that fatal speedball in March 1982. Smith made her way to Los Angeles in 1976 where she became a drug dealer who listed both Keith Richards and Ron Woods as clients. Gordon knew there was something dangerous about her and wrote both “Sundown” and “Rainy Day People” about her. Back in the early 70s, he got himself into an entanglement with a Toronto scenester named Cathy Evenlyn Smith. There was even a whiff of Hollywood scandal.

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Lightfoot was given just about every honour a Canadian could receive including a couple of doctorates, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, induction in the Songwriters Hall of Fame plus the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (Dylan did the induction), and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. There were all the hit singles that climbed to the top of the American charts: “Early Morning Rain” (also a hit for Elvis), “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “Rainy Day People,” and the masterful “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Meanwhile, for a guy who wrote a lot about trains and shipwrecks (and peppered his songs with Canadianisms), he sure sold a lot of albums. Still, given the success of the single (top 10 in a dozen countries and sales of over 2.5 million copies PLUS the royalties derived from its parent album, which sold somewhere north of 25 million), the settlement must have been pretty sweet. The case was settled out of court the settlement did not include Lightfoot’s name being added to the writer’s credits.

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