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Old 01-23-2016, 12:15 AM   #5
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Default Re: LONDON Telegraph interview- part 1-jan.2016

Many thanks Char for the heads up on what I think is the first UK newspaper article I have seen about Gord's UK tour this year,. a nice lengthy one in my one time favourite rag the Telegraph (fantastic crosswords that I spent the best part of 3 years at University studying !!)
I had previously spotted the article's arresting headline in a posting on Facebook
Gordon Lightfoot the Queen likes my Canadian Railroad Trilogy song
It also featured a few photos such as these two




I especially enjoyed the following paragraph
And you loved London?
I can remember it so well. I lived at 56 Gloucester Road. On the fourth floor. I used to take the subway out to Shepherd's Bush. I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. My mother had every memento you could find on the Queen. Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said
I have previously posted about that address in Kensington see my later post at:-
http://corfid.com/vbb/showpost.php?p=179657&postcount=3
that contains a now non functioning link to my original (I will be reporting this to Florian)
I had made up an ersatz blue plaque to attach to the shop front at 56 Gloucester Road see

you can see the fourth floor there in that screenshot from Google Streetview that I displayed on that earlier posting
in which I also displayed a historic marker plaque allegedly affixed to the shopfront's fascia board

I had previously used screenshots made from Google's "Streetview". but I recently saw that Microsoft's Bing has been playing copycat/catchup so here is the Bing "Streetside" view of the same shop front

 

On another link I found another 2016 concert see
http://ticketofficeeventsales.com/Ve...FQokHwodDCMCxA
Gordon Lightfoot
Jun 25, 2016
Sat 8:00PM
Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel & Casino
Deadwood, SD
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