Jan Böhmermann
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In addition, it must be said that since the sinking, 6,000 ships have sunk in these lakes and more than 30,000 people have sunk and have never been found again. There is this expression that the lake simply keeps the people in this place. I came up with it through a song. And this song was written by Gordon Lightfoot.
It's not very well known in Germany, but the song is called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and describes the whole story. And it's actually a very, very big songwriting. When you listen to it, you think to yourself, you're on the ship and you're going down with these 29 people. It's a song without a chorus, it's seven and a half minutes long, insane.
It's not very well known in Germany, but the song is called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and describes the whole story. And it's actually a very, very big songwriting. When you listen to it, you think to yourself, you're on the ship and you're going down with these 29 people. It's a song without a chorus, it's seven and a half minutes long, insane.
It's not very well known in Germany, but the song is called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and describes the whole story. And it's actually a very, very big songwriting. When you listen to it, you think to yourself, you're on the ship and you're going down with these 29 people. It's a song without a chorus, it's seven and a half minutes long, insane.
I just think it's crazy that one year after this incident took place, Gordon Lightfoot, whose career was actually already at the end. He was considered a great songwriter in the 50s and 60s. Elvis covered songs from him. Bob Dylan once said about Gordon Lightfoot, the only bad thing about his songs is that they stop at some point. So he really counts as a great man.
I just think it's crazy that one year after this incident took place, Gordon Lightfoot, whose career was actually already at the end. He was considered a great songwriter in the 50s and 60s. Elvis covered songs from him. Bob Dylan once said about Gordon Lightfoot, the only bad thing about his songs is that they stop at some point. So he really counts as a great man.
I just think it's crazy that one year after this incident took place, Gordon Lightfoot, whose career was actually already at the end. He was considered a great songwriter in the 50s and 60s. Elvis covered songs from him. Bob Dylan once said about Gordon Lightfoot, the only bad thing about his songs is that they stop at some point. So he really counts as a great man.
His great time was already over, but this song made him immortal. He talked about these 29 people and about the chef who came out and said to the other 28, it was my pleasure to drive with you. That's how it is delivered, what was in it or not, you don't know. I listened to this song recently and read the whole text. You can also do that on Spotify. And last year Gordon Lightfoot died.
His great time was already over, but this song made him immortal. He talked about these 29 people and about the chef who came out and said to the other 28, it was my pleasure to drive with you. That's how it is delivered, what was in it or not, you don't know. I listened to this song recently and read the whole text. You can also do that on Spotify. And last year Gordon Lightfoot died.
His great time was already over, but this song made him immortal. He talked about these 29 people and about the chef who came out and said to the other 28, it was my pleasure to drive with you. That's how it is delivered, what was in it or not, you don't know. I listened to this song recently and read the whole text. You can also do that on Spotify. And last year Gordon Lightfoot died.
This song made him so immortal. That in the village where the men grew up, who were mostly very young seamen, who had just founded families. And if you look at the YouTube entries from the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, you see our many sons and daughters, these lost seamen, who thank each other that this song was written, which is for this kind of sanctification and also a bit...
This song made him so immortal. That in the village where the men grew up, who were mostly very young seamen, who had just founded families. And if you look at the YouTube entries from the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, you see our many sons and daughters, these lost seamen, who thank each other that this song was written, which is for this kind of sanctification and also a bit...
This song made him so immortal. That in the village where the men grew up, who were mostly very young seamen, who had just founded families. And if you look at the YouTube entries from the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, you see our many sons and daughters, these lost seamen, who thank each other that this song was written, which is for this kind of sanctification and also a bit...
The whole story... Yes, I found it very moving, also very nice that music has the great power to describe a loss or a grief, as it may no longer be done today, because you no longer respect other people as much as it was the case back then. It's a very big song by The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The whole story... Yes, I found it very moving, also very nice that music has the great power to describe a loss or a grief, as it may no longer be done today, because you no longer respect other people as much as it was the case back then. It's a very big song by The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The whole story... Yes, I found it very moving, also very nice that music has the great power to describe a loss or a grief, as it may no longer be done today, because you no longer respect other people as much as it was the case back then. It's a very big song by The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
I came up with it because I read the biography of Pete Steele, the singer of Type O Negative, who unfortunately also died over ten or twelve years ago. And he always wanted to cover this song. And then I immediately came up with this song, read through the whole story and came across this rabbit hole for two nights.
I came up with it because I read the biography of Pete Steele, the singer of Type O Negative, who unfortunately also died over ten or twelve years ago. And he always wanted to cover this song. And then I immediately came up with this song, read through the whole story and came across this rabbit hole for two nights.
I came up with it because I read the biography of Pete Steele, the singer of Type O Negative, who unfortunately also died over ten or twelve years ago. And he always wanted to cover this song. And then I immediately came up with this song, read through the whole story and came across this rabbit hole for two nights.
I looked at everything about the Great Lakes, about these five big, connected freshwater lakes. I looked at the story of the ship, the boat, and then also the story of... And that's the way it is. I don't know if you know that. You come from one to the other, find one thing interesting, and then you sit two hours in front of the computer. And that's why I love the internet.