On paper, it should never have been a hit record. But despite the odds stacked against it — the 6-minute length, the somber subject matter, the last-minute recording session — “The Wreck of the Edmund ...
Gordon Lightfoot’s Haunting Tribute: How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Became His Finest Work
Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...
The air was electric with emotion as Gordon Lightfoot took the stage Sunday night in Shea's Performing Arts Center. And it wasn't just the familiar themes of love, loss and longing that have permeated ...
were sold off one by one in a six-hour live auction by A. H. Wilkens Auctions and Appraisals. Among the objects for sale were a guitar strap made from real snakeskin, a taxidermied tiger rug ($2,328).
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