Lightfoot was doing well in Canada for a while, but it was “If You Could Read My Mind” from 1970 that piqued interest in his music among listeners down south. The song was a big US hit that peaked at ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. This article is more than 2 years old. INDIO, CA - APRIL 29: ...

The 50th anniversary of Lightfoot’s haunting folk rock ballad, about the 1975 sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, will figure prominently when The Lightfoot Band returns ...

"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.

The trouble with interviewing Gordon Lightfoot is not that the 74-year-old folk music legend is evasive or difficult or whatever other thing legends have earned the right to be in interviews; in fact, ...

In the early 1970s, Gordon Lightfoot met a woman named Cathy Smith. They began a relationship, and the song “Sundown” documented their up-and-down love affair. At the time, Smith was a well-known ...

Gordon Lightfoot has written some of most the enduring folk and pop songs around. He's written so many, he sometimes worries that he's accidentally taken pieces of other writers' work. "Kris ...

I recently discovered that I have Gordon Lightfoot’s first 14 LPs in my collection. He released 20 albums over his 40-year career. There was a time in my late teens and early 20s when I listened to ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's iconic career stretched more than a half-century, from the 1960s until he passed away last year at age 84. But perhaps just as impressive as Lightfoot's ...

All this talk about about Gordon Lightfoot being one of the legends of popular music? As far as he's concerned, you can toss it out the window of a tour bus. "This whole thing of legendary status, I ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald was so impressive, crowds would gather to watch it go through the Soo Locks. DETROIT — Here in the Mariners' Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner ...