That's exactly what happened to Gordon Lightfoot with his hit song,"For Lovin' Me." Released in 1966, it was the breakout hit ...

Some people work for 50 years and decide just to take a load off. Well, Gordon Lightfoot will be busier than ever - 26-city tour to mark his 50th year writing and singing some of the most popular ...

Gordon Lightfoot's music had already won over his native Canada. His American breakthrough came with an intensely personal ...

Lightfoot was doing well in Canada for a while, but it was “If You Could Read My Mind” from 1970 that piqued interest in his music among listeners down south. The song was a big US hit that peaked at ...

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, ...

"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.

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 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 ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of 29 with her. The cargo ship's home port was ...

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, ...