Gordon Lightfoot Read About a Shipwreck. Then He Wrote One of Music’s Most Unusual Hit Singles

BY DECEMBER OF 1975, Lightfoot felt he had enough songs ready for his next album, Summertime Dream. It was time to gather his ...
Interlochen Public Radio

Gordon Lightfoot's drummer wasn't a fan originally. Here's how that changed

Barry Keane played drums for Lightfoot for 48 years, before the artist's death in 2023. The Lightfoot band — with its ...
WXYZ-TV Channel 7

New book sheds light on how Gordon Lightfoot wrote ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’

“The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Michigan author John U. Bacon honors the 50th ...
Variety

Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Make Surprise Performance at Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Concert in Toronto

Lee and Lifeson, billed on the private performer rundown and setlist only as “L+L,” were backed by Canadian Music Hall of Famers (and the evening’s house band) Blue Rodeo on Lightfoot’s song “The Way ...