Massey Hall will welcome back a core part of its musical history next year as The Lightfoot Band prepares to perform a full ...
Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad immortalized the tragedy forever.
Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...
This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on the 50th anniversary of the disaster.
MORRISBURG — Celebrating 43-years of entertaining audiences from across Eastern Ontario and beyond, the Upper Canada ...
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"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.
Millions grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot's music — but the man behind "Sundown" was deeply complicated. From his distaste for speaking openly despite being a public figure to his claim that he ...
The Nov. 10, 1975, shipwreck formed the basis of Lightfoot's 1976 story song. By Gary Trust Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, massive freighter the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, amid ...
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...
Newspaper clippings donated to the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center in Duluth recount the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975.