50 Years Ago: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Sinks and Inspires a Gordon Lightfoot Hit

For those that live or have lived around the American Great Lakes region, the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is likely ...

Gordon Lightfoot's ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' Sees Massive Streams & Sales Gains on 50th Anniversary of Titular Disaster

This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...

Chart Rewind: The Legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald Lives on in Gordon Lightfoot’s Hit Tribute

The loss was commemorated in folk-rocker Gordon Lightfoot ’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which hit No. 2 on the ...

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 ...

50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...
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 ...
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, ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Stage North’s ‘Ten November’ to honor lives lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago

Inspired by Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting 1976 song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” playwright Steven Dietz was commissioned by the Actors Theatre of St. Paul in 1986 to create "Ten November." ...