The documentary interviews some well-known Canadian singers including Sarah McLachlan and Anne Murray, and reveals a long-time mutual admiration between Lightfoot and Bob Dylan. “I didn’t know what chauvinism was,” he says now. it grew dark, it was then …” – when he learned that the 1975 shipping tragedy had not involved a caved-in hatch, which suggested human error on the part of the crew.īut he has made changes for more personal reasons, once modifying a line in the title song, “If You Could Read My Mind,” from “the feelings that you lack,” to “the feelings that we lack.” The song is about one of his divorces, and his daughter reminded him that such things are seldom about just one party in the marriage.Īnd he says in the documentary that he’ll never again write a song like “That’s What You Get For Loving Me,” which suggests an unfaithful partner. a main hatchway caved in” became “At 7 p.m. A few years ago, he changed a line in “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” – “At 7 p.m. Lightfoot works assiduously on his lyrics, but they don’t always turn out perfectly. Here are five things we learned about the octogenarian singer-songwriter. Directors Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe gather quite a few in their new documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind. You don’t get to 80 years old – especially in the Canadian music industry – without a few stories. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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