The Edmund Fitzgerald lost 29 crew members after it sank during a storm on Lake Superior after leaving with iron ore from the mines near Duluth.

Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which may have made the disaster among the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping. Lightfoot, in Fargo to play a concert at the Civic Center a number of years ago, talked about the song in this interview from the KFGO archives.

<p>The Edmund Fitzgerald lost 29 crew members after it sank during a storm on Lake Superior after leaving with iron ore from the mines near Duluth.</p>
<p>Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which may have made the disaster among the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping. Lightfoot, in Fargo to play a concert at the Civic Center a number of years ago, talked about the song in this interview from the KFGO archives.</p>

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