Edmund Fitzgerald legend lives on thanks to divine intervention

It was one of those magical circumstances that legends are made of.

In this case, the legend lives on not just on the tragic sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald ship but in the song written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot that memorialized it forever.

This November 10th marks 50 years since the massive 729-foot-long laker sunk in a major storm on Lake Superior and next year will hit the half century mark of some very interesting developments that led to Lightfoot writing – the song that helped keep the memories of the 29 lost Great Lakes sailors alive.

But if not for a strange series of events, the classic song may never have come into existence.

Lightfoot’s iconic drummer of almost a half century, Barry Keane, remembers first hearing about the wreck when being brought into to do per