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Fifty years after Edmund Fitzgerald claimed 29 lives, Gordon Lightfoot's musical memorial endures
Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad immortalized the tragedy forever.
The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...
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Gordon Lightfoot’s Haunting Tribute: How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Became His Finest Work
Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.
Spirit of Gordon Lightfoot echoed through Oro-Medonte brewery Friday as people enjoyed live performances and shared memories ...
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.
A standing-room only crowd assembled in a meeting room to recall the shipwreck, honor its entire crew and learn more about Edward Bindon, a Fairport Harbor resident who was aboard the Fitzgerald ...
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