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How Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ became a cultural phenomenon

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the Edmund Fitzgerald. This is what the song got wrong.

Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was released less than a year after the ship sank and became an instant ...

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.

'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 ...