"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.

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.

There’s no doubt that Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 hit song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” helped keep the story of the doomed American ore carrier alive since it fell apart in Lake Superior during ...

Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 song 'Protocol,' featured on the acclaimed 'Summertime Dream' album, serves as a significant anti-war anthem reflecting on the Vietnam War's harsh realities. Its evocative ...

In honor of six decades of music, here are 10 of Gordon Lightfoot's finest moments. By Chuck Dauphin There are few careers in popular music more versatile than that of Gordon Lightfoot. The native ...

As family, friends and supporters of the crew gather tonight to remember the men, the song that helped make the wreck so famous has some new lyrics. Gordon Lightfoot's song about the Edmund Fitzgerald ...

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 ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot released a folk-rock ballad titled ...

May 1 (Reuters) - Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot, the prolific singer-songwriter known for such folk-pop hits as "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," died on ...

Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni's 'Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind' documentary delivers an intimate portrait of the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter. By Frank Scheck The paeans come fast ...