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 ...

"We’re not gone until the last person who remembered us is gone, and my hope is that we never live in a world in which no one ...

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

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

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

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 50 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, ...

Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ...

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, retired reporter Harry Atkins recounts his experience covering the wreck of ...

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

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

Fifty years after its sinking on Lake Superior, the iron-ore ship remains a fascination among guys. There’s good reason for ...