The haunting song became the singer's only No. 1 hit and remains one of soft rock's defining songs.

Gordon Lightfoot made me appreciate men. Not romantically — I’d had crushes on boys well before I ever heard his music — but empathetically. and my pockets full of sand. These were the people whose ...

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 ...

There’s no doubt that Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 hit song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” helped keep the story of the doomed American ore carrier alive since it fell apart in Lake Superior during ...