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Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer, dies at 84

Canadian folk-rock icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84. The singer-songwriter was known for classics such as “If You Could Read My Mind” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

NPR’s Neda Ulaby reports.

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