As news spread May 1 of Canadian songwriting and singing legend Gordon Lightfoot’s death, realizing the full impact of his artistry and the breadth of his catalog felt all the more jolting. To hear ...

Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is No. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time following the shipwreck's 50th anniversary.

FILE - Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, strums backstage at the Westbury Music Fair on Sept. 8, 1987, in Westbury, N.Y. Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits include “Early Morning ...

Gordon Lightfoot made me appreciate men. Not romantically — I’d had crushes on boys well before I ever heard his music — but empathetically. and my pockets full of sand. These were the people whose ...

At a point in the mid-1970s, few artists had quite the same presence on pop radio as Gordon Lightfoot. Following his breakthrough 1970 hit, “If You Could Read My Mind,” the chart-topping “Sundown” ...

TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown" and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday. He was 84. Representative ...

When we revisited the 50th anniversary of “Dark Side of the Moon” in this space awhile back, it occurred to me that one member of Pink Floyd who played a big role in writing and recording the music ...

Michiganders remembered Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer who died Monday at 84 and who told stories through song, one of the best known being "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," an unlikely ...

The trouble with interviewing Gordon Lightfoot is not that the 74-year-old folk music legend is evasive or difficult or whatever other thing legends have earned the right to be in interviews; in fact, ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who helped pave the way for the ’70s folk-rock sound, died of natural causes Monday evening at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He was 84. His family ...

Musicians can win all kinds of awards. But few find themselves on a stamp, one of the highest honors a nation can bestow on one of its artists. That’s where Gordon Lightfoot landed in 2007, when the ...