Neil Gordon Fitzgerald passed away on the morning of June 12, 2025: his long struggle with cancer now ended at age 73. He did not go gentle into that good night. Gordon was born on October 25, 1951 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor's note: Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 megahit, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” held a special resonance in Detroit. This ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The director of an Upper Peninsula museum says folk singer Gordon Lightfoot’s famous song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” helped keep the memory of the vessel and ...

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 ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — 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 ...

"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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. : Gordon Lightfoot performing at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA on October 6, 1974 (Ron Pownall/Getty Images) Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ...

Gordon Lightfoot, internationally known for songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," and acclaimed as Canada's greatest songwriter, was born in ...

Dave Strandberg, the first DJ to play Gordon Lightfoot's song in the city — and, likely, one of the first in the country — said "the phones basically lit up" when he dropped the needle. A detail view ...

Gordon D. Fitzgerald Virginia Beach – Gordon D. Fitzgerald, 89, passed away on Thursday, February 27, 2014. Born in Richmond, VA, he was the son of the late James and Aurelia Fitzgerald. He was also ...

The song is long and moody, an unlikely hit in the highly competitive world of popular music. But in Detroit and other Great Lakes cities, it's now one of the top records on AM radio. The song is "The ...