{"id":99680,"date":"2023-05-03T07:51:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/03\/neil-young-shares-eulogy-for-gordon-lightfoot-a-songwriter-without-parallel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T07:51:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:51:34","slug":"neil-young-shares-eulogy-for-gordon-lightfoot-a-songwriter-without-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/03\/neil-young-shares-eulogy-for-gordon-lightfoot-a-songwriter-without-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Shares Eulogy For Gordon Lightfoot: &#8220;A Songwriter Without Parallel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Neil Young has shared a tribute to Canadian people hero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2222395\/canadian-folk-icon-gordon-lightfoot-dead-at-84\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon Lightfoot<\/a>, who died yesterday on the age of 84. \u201cI just spoke to Gordon a few weeks back and he sounded happy, although he had cancelled some shows and was reorganizing his touring,\u201d Young wrote on his <a href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\/article?id=Gordon-Lightfoot-page1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web site<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was saddened when I learned today of his passing,\u201d Young continues. \u201cGordon was a great Canadian artist. A songwriter without parallel, his melodies and words were an inspiration to all writers who listened to his music, as they will continue to be through the ages. There is a unique and wonderful feeling to Gordon\u2019s music. Lightfoot is a Canadian legend. His song just came up today by itself on the Hearse Schedule. PEACE Gordon. Love Neil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young, one other Canadian folk-rock legend, famously coated Lightfoot\u2019s \u201cEarly Morning Rain\u201d and \u201cIf You Could Read My Mind\u201d on his 2014 album <em>A Letter Home<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Neil Young has shared a tribute to Canadian people hero Gordon Lightfoot, who died yesterday on the age of 84. \u201cI just spoke to Gordon a few weeks back and he sounded happy, although he had cancelled some shows and was reorganizing his touring,\u201d Young wrote on his web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}