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.
OrilliaMatters

Crowd packs Quayle's to celebrate what would have been Lightfoot's 87th birthday

Spirit of Gordon Lightfoot echoed through Oro-Medonte brewery Friday as people enjoyed live performances and shared memories ...
Duluth News Tribune

'The perfect song': Remembering Gordon Lightfoot and the Edmund Fitzgerald

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." ...

'It was meant to be filler': Story of Gordon Lightfoot's 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...
Newsday

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

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.
WDIO

Gordon Lightfoot Tribute concert coming up in Superior

A Gordon Lightfoot Tribute concert is coming up on Friday, October 10 at the World of Accordions Museum- Harrington Arts Center in Superior. Michigan native Mike Fornes will be appearing as Gordon ...
The New York Times

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm. The mighty ship, ...