The reaction on social media to Gordon Lightfoot’s death shows what an immense impact he had on millions of people. For so many, his music was the soundtrack of their lives. In 1968, I saw him perform at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center to an audience he held gently in the palm of his hand. His songs had a haunting, often poignant, quality of loss and loneliness and the happy ones, like The Pony Man, were as soothing as a nursery rhyme. I owe him a personal debt for a curious reason.
© 2024 John Oliver
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