Gordon Lightfoot Reflected on Regret Over Writing 'For Lovin' Me' While Married

Released in 1966, it was the breakout hit that launched his entire career. That song’s what made Gordon Lightfoot famous.
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Gordon Lightfoot Read About a Shipwreck. Then He Wrote One of Music’s Most Unusual Hit Singles

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, ...
American Songwriter

Gordon Lightfoot’s First Big US Hit Dealt Intensely with His Failing Marriage

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

Gordon Lightfoot song about Gales of November stands the test of time | Opinion

The Mariners' Church in Detroit will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad is inextricably linked to the maritime tragedy that killed 29 ...
Rolling Stone

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

On the night of Nov. 10, 1975, Gordon Lightfoot was perched in the attic of his Toronto home, working on a song. By then, the 36-year-old was already one of the most successful figures of the ...