Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. This article is more than 3 years old. INDIO, CA - APRIL 29: ...

Gordon Lightfoot's music had already won over his native Canada. His American breakthrough came with an intensely personal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightfoot felt that he was getting close on his sea shanty melody, which seemed to fit his subject’s somber and mysterious mood, ...

Think you've heard everything from Gordon Lightfoot? At age 74, the Canadian singer-songwriter known for "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown," "Rainy Day People" and "The Wreck of the Edmund ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, massive freighter the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, amid 50-foot waves and ...

Bidding is open on the 12-string acoustic guitar Gordon Lightfoot reportedly used to write the 1976 hit, as well as on a 1989 certificate naming him an honorary resident of Superior. This 1963 Gibson ...

Some people work for 50 years and decide just to take a load off. Well, Gordon Lightfoot will be busier than ever - 26-city tour to mark his 50th year writing and singing some of the most popular ...

FILE - Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, strums backstage at the Westbury Music Fair on Sept. 8, 1987, in Westbury, N.Y. Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter, whose hits include “Early Morning ...

Legendary singer-songwriter, who’s overcome health issues, still can move an audience. Gordon Lightfoot and his band perform at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday night. Amanda ...

Gordon Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday at the age of 84, his representative has confirmed. The Canadian musician rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s with hits including Early ...

Lightfoot’s music created the soundtrack for the daily life of many Canadian families. By Shawna Richer When I was growing up, Gordon Lightfoot songs played on the living room stereo, on the radio in ...

When we revisited the 50th anniversary of “Dark Side of the Moon” in this space awhile back, it occurred to me that one member of Pink Floyd who played a big role in writing and recording the music ...