Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an ...

The loss was commemorated in folk-rocker Gordon Lightfoot ’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which hit No. 2 on the ...

Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad ...

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Jeremy Messersmith’s idea to rerecord Gordon Lightfoot’s epic 1976 song for the shipwreck's 50th anniversary became ...

Ironically, Lightfoot said in a 2015 interview with NPR that he was inspired to write the song after being annoyed by an ...

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

And for that, we can thank Gordon Lightfoot. Recorded in December 1975 — mere weeks after the ship had sunk — and released ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late ...

On November 10, 2,200 gathered at Split Rock Lighthouse to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, honoring the 29 lost souls ...

NOVEMBER 10, 1975THE ORE CARRIER, THE EDMUND FITZGERALD, SINKS DURING A STORM ON LAKE SUPERIOR. NONE OF THE 29 CREW MEMBERS ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most famous of the estimated ...