The haunting song became the singer's only No. 1 hit and remains one of soft rock's defining songs.

This video reflects on the life, music, and legacy of Gordon Lightfoot following his passing at the age of 84. Through a ...

Gordon Lightfoot was behind many of the iconic folk-rock songs that defined the genre. He’s without a doubt one of Canada’s greatest songwriters of all time, and younger fans continue to find fresh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightfoot felt that he was getting close on his sea shanty melody, which seemed to fit his subject's somber and mysterious mood, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — Here in the Mariners' Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it.

For many singer-songwriters, the breakthrough hit arrives when they play the game a bit and capitulate to what pop audiences expect. Intensely personal songs are usually reserved for album tracks.

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers what Lightfoot said about why he wrote "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

"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.

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, ...

The Mariners' Church in Detroit will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad is inextricably linked to the maritime tragedy that killed 29 ...