Lightfoot

Lightfoot

Shortlisted for the 2017Â Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award
Nominated for the 2018Â Heritage Toronto Award - Historical Writing: Book

The definitive, full-access story of the life and songs of Canada's legendary troubadour

Gordon Lightfootâ€™s name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness. His music defined the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and â€˜70s, topped charts and sold millions. He is unquestionably Canadaâ€™s greatest songwriter, and an international star who has performed on the worldâ€™s biggest stages.

While Lightfootâ€™s songs are well known, the man behind them is elusive. Heâ€™s never allowed his life to be chronicled in a bookâ€”until now.

Biographer Nick Jennings has had unprecedented access to the notoriously reticent musician. Lightfoot takes us deep inside the artistâ€™s world, from his idyllic childhood in Orillia, the wild sixties, and his canoe trips into Canadaâ€™s North to his heady times atop the music world. Jennings explores the toll that success took on his personal lifeâ€”including his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiencesâ€”and the extraordinary drive and tenacity that pulled him through it all.

Rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, Lightfootâ€™s family and the singerâ€™s own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his best-known love songs, including â€œBeautifulâ€ and â€œSong for a Winterâ€™s Night,â€ as well as the infidelity and divorce that resulted in classics like â€œSundownâ€ and â€œIf You Could Read My Mind.â€ Kris Kristofferson has called Lightfootâ€™s songs â€œsome of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time.â€

Lightfoot is an unforgettable portrait of a treasured singer-songwriter, an artist whose work has been covered by everyone from Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand and Nico to Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Gord Downie. Revealing and insightful, Lightfoot is both an inspiring story of redemption and an exhilarating read.
Country USA
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-09-26
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-09-26
Format	Kindle eBook

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