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Lightfoot makes correction to Fitzgerald lyric
QMI AGENCY – Lyrics are
sacred to any songwriter, but
even Gordon Lightfoot
knows to backtrack when he
gets one wrong.
Thirty-fiveyearsafterthe
mysterioussinkingoftheEdmund
Fitzgerald in Lake Superior,aCanadiandocumen
REUTERS — American Idol
judge Simon Cowell will
receive an international
Emmy award for having
“reshaped 21st century
television and music
around the world,” the
International Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences
said on Thursday.
Cowell,50,isbestknown
for his roles as a brutally
honest judge on TV talent
shows The X Factor and
American Idol.
Buthealsoownsamusic
publishing house, Syco, developed
the Got Talent TV
formatinBritain,theUnited
StatesandEurope,managed
the operatic pop group Il
Divo, and signed frumpy
Scottish singing sensation
Susan Boyle.
“Simon Cowell is an entrepreneurandperformerin
equal measure. He has built
aninternationalempireand
in so doing has changed the
faceoftelevisionaroundthe
tary claims to have proven
the crew of the ship was not
responsible for the disaster.
An earlier investigation
suggested that the crew was
partly to blame by not securing
the ship’s hatches.
The yap films documentary,
simply called Edmund
world,” said International
Academy president Bruce
Paisner.
Cowell, who in 2009
topped The Hollywood Reporter’s
list of the 50 most
powerful people in reality
TV, will be presented with
the International Emmy
Founders Award at an
awards gala in New York on
Nov. 22.
“I’m delighted,” said
Cowell in a statement. “I’ve
been very lucky to be able to
make shows that I love.”
TheInternationalEmmy
FoundersAwardrecognizes
an individual who has
Fitzgerald, concludes that
there is little evidence that
failure to secure the ship’s
hatches caused the sinking.
That detail of the original
investigation made its way
into Lightfoot’s iconic song
about the sinking, in The
Wreck of the Edmund
SIMON COWELL
International accolade for Idol icon
“I’m delighted ...
I’ve been very
lucky to be able
to make shows
that I love.”
made an impact on the television
industry and crosses
cultural boundaries.
Previous recipients include
Steven Spielberg,
Oprah Winfrey, former U.S.
vicepresidentAlGore,and
British TV journalist
David Frost.
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Fitzgerald verse “…at7p.m.a
main hatchway gave in.”
Now, Lightfoot intends to
change it to reflect the new
findings.
“I’m sincerely grateful to
yap films and their program
Dive Detectives for ... putting
togethercompellingevidence
IndiebluesrockersTheWhiteStripespremieredatNo.4.withUnderGreatWhiteNorthernLightson the
Canadianalbumchartsthisweek.
Lady Antebellum holds on to top spot;
new White Stripes premieres at No.4
QMI AGENCY — Lady Antebellum
made it a triple
play on Canadian
album
that the tragedy was not a result
of crew error,” Lightfoot
saidinarelease.“Thisfinally
vindicates, and honours, not
only all of the crew who lost
theirlives,butalsothefamily
members who survived
them.”
ThesongreachedNo.2on
charts this week.
Thehotcountryact’ssecond
effort, Need You Now,securedtheNo.1spotforathird
consecutive week, selling
over 9,000 copies, according
to figures compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan.
Need You Now has sold
just under 70,000 copies
since its release eight
weeks ago.
Meanwhile, the
biggest debut of the
20
the Billboard chart in 1976
and remains the secondhighest
rated single (after
Sundown)Lightfootreleased
in his career.
Lightfoot has stayed in
touchwithmanyofthefamilies
of the ship’s crew who
perished.
week went to Nicole Martin’s
Cocktail de Douceur, which
entered the charts at No. 2.
Jimi Hendrix’s Valleys of
Neptune slipped one spot to
No. 3 and the White Stripes’
Under Great White Northern
Lights premiered at No. 4.
Lady Gaga’s The Fame
moved up one notch to No. 5,
Bobby Bazini’s BetterinTime
dropped two to No. 6, and
Ke$ha’s Animal occupied the
No.7slot.