One Lightfoot in the grave – thanks to errant tweet

Forget about the Winter Olympics – what do you mean, you had? – the Canadian media's attention was briefly diverted yesterday by news that Ontario-born singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot had died. News of his passing began circulating around newspapers, broadcasters and, inevitably, Twitter. Except that he wasn't really dead . At all. Lightfoot himself heard the news on the radio as he was driving home from the dentist. So where did the false story come from? Very possibly this errant tweet, according to the good people of MediaStyle . Still, it wasn't all bad. Not only is Lightfoot still alive, "I haven't had so much airplay for weeks," he said. A new "best of" compilation must only be a heartbeat away.