‘The church bell chimed until it rang 29 times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.’ It hardly seems possible that Gordon Lightfoot’s ode to the Fitz turns 50 this year. Of the thousands of ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes, none are as universally known as the Edmund Fitzgerald. When […]
Okay music trivia fans, can you name the lead singers for the following one hit wonder bands from the early 1970s? We can hum a couple of bars of the Jeopardy waiting music while you search your memory banks: Edison Lighthouse…White Plains…Pipkins…Brotherhood of Man… First Class…okay, time is up! There is one little letter […]
R.I.P. Clem Burke (nee: Bozewski), the longtime drummer for the band Blondie. Born in Bayonne, New Jersey on November 24, 1954, Burke succumbed to cancer on April 6, 2025. Having read that he was finally getting around to finishing his biography (The Other SIde of the Dream – My Life In and Out of […]