Music of My Life: Year 3

Another tough year. I would say 'Bohemian Rhapsody', but that song did not exist for me prior to 1992's Wayne's World, despite being considered one of the top songs of last quarter of the 20th century. Another possibility would be Larry Groce's 'Junk Food Junkie', but health food has never meant anything to me.

No, for this one, I have to go back to my ballad roots and go with Gordon Lightfoot and 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. As an aside, I always love looking things up on Wikipedia; I usually find out something new and completely unexpected. For example, I found out that TD Mishke, one of my two favorite radio personalities (the other being Jim Lileks), once interviewed someone about the historical details of the ship descibed in the song live on the radio, but did so by singing the questions to the tune of the Lightfoot song. The interviewee had not been told that this would be the 'format' of the interview, but proceeded to answer the questions straight-faced.