Editor's note: Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 megahit, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” held a special resonance in Detroit. This story appeared on page three of the Free Press on Sept. 5, 1976. The ...

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 it.

The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is coming up on 50 years and local historians are looking for one of the last radios to be in contact with the ill-fated voyage. A 1974 Coast Guard radio made the final ...

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 ...

(WXYZ) — Legendary Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot died Monday at the age of 84, and we're looking back at one of his most popular hits, "The Wreck of the ...

DULUTH — The guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," according to his longtime bassist, is being sold at auction along with several other items related to the late ...

One of the best-known shipwrecks of the 20th century took place north of Wisconsin involving a ship owned by a Milwaukee company, registered to Milwaukee and named for a Milwaukee board chairman — and ...

Michiganders remembered Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer who died Monday at 84 and who told stories through song, one of the best known being "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," an unlikely ...

DULUTH -- Maybe it's because no one knows for sure exactly what happened. Maybe it's because so many lives were lost in an instant. Or maybe it's because of the song. It was 35 years ago tonight when ...