'It was meant to be filler': Story of Gordon Lightfoot's 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the shipwreck that took 29 lives.
The Current

Nov. 21 in Music History: Happy Birthday, Björk

Billy Idol had a hit with a cover; The Stone Roses released a song after five years; Ray Charles had four hits at the same ...
Laois Nationalist

Longest-serving Laois councillor marks 40-year milestone

A VETERAN councillor widely described as ‘a legend and a gentleman’ was honoured at a special reception in county hall, to celebrate his 40 years on Laois Co Council.
The Courier-Mail

Barry FitzGerald: Looking for leverage to nuclear renaissance? Uranium play Lotus takes the yellowcake

ASX-listed uranium stocks were beaten up badly during the week for no reason other than the broader risk-off sentiment that has come to pervade the market. Double digit percentage share price falls ...
heraldsun.com.au

Barry FitzGerald: Looking for leverage to nuclear renaissance? Uranium play Lotus takes the yellowcake

Lotus Resources could be the value play in ASX uranium developers as the broader market ignores yellowcake’s nuclear tailwinds. ASX-listed uranium stocks were beaten up badly during the week for no ...
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Barry FitzGerald: Looking for leverage to nuclear renaissance? Uranium play Lotus takes the yellowcake

“Garimpeiro” columnist Barry FitzGerald has covered the resources industry for 35 years. Now he’s sharing the benefits of his experience with Stockhead readers. ASX-listed uranium stocks were beaten ...
National Catholic Register

Edmund Fitzgerald at 50: ‘The Gales of November’ and the God Who Remembers

FEATURE: Fifty years after the freighter vanished in a November storm, the families left behind — ‘the wives and the sons and ...
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Barry FitzGerald: With Torque’s market valuation, small cap punters may pull off their own Paris gold heist

“Garimpeiro” columnist Barry FitzGerald has covered the resources industry for 35 years. Now he’s sharing the benefits of his experience with Stockhead readers. There was much gnashing of teeth in the ...

Retired AP reporter helped cement the legend of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, retired reporter Harry Atkins recounts his experience covering the wreck of ...

50 Years Later, the Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald Lives On

Fifty years on, John U. Bacon has written a new account of the disaster. In “ The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, ” he humanizes the tragedy, telling stories of each man ...
North Country Public Radio

Fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald: How the legend was recorded (and lives on)

Mitch Teich Fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald: How the legend was recorded (and lives on) Fifty years ago this month, an early season storm led to probably ...

50 years later, the mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald still haunts the children of its lost crew

Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay.