"RIP Gordon Lightfoot. If you could read my mind was most popular song on any of the Trigger Happy Soundtracks," he added. Getty Images Lightfoot, pictured here in London in 1973, was awarded ...

Gordon Lightfoot ... the top spot on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales chart this week. What makes this even more noteworthy is that Lightfoot has replaced his own hit with another.

“I can’t think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don’t like. Every time I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last ...

TORONTO - Gordon Lightfoot's treasured "Sundown ... Shrum noted that a small, beat-up wooden desk that Lightfoot often carried with him to write songs drew outsized interest.