Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter, dies aged 84

Musician best known for folk-pop hits such as If You Could Read My Mind and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, continued to tour in his later years

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, best known for folk-pop hits such as If You Could Read My Mind and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 84, a representative of his family said.

His long-time publicist Victoria Lord said Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday evening. The cause of death was not immediately available.