Ep 319 - Gordon Lightfoot, Alan Frew of Glass Tiger

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This week - a brand new interview with the legendary Gordon Lightfoot, who talks about his earliest days as a struggling singer-songwriter, writing the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald and why he decided not to sue Whitney Houston over the song "The Greatest Love Of All". The new documentary about Gordon's Life, "If You Could Read My Mind", is in theatres across Canada this weekend!   Plus, Alan Frew joins us live in studio. Alan talks about the heady days of Glass Tiger in the mid '80s, the biggest crowd he ever played for - and how his buddy Rod Stewart ended up singing on Glass Tiger's greatest song.

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