Being home to Detroit home to m0t0wn America’s Rock City we have many songs to opt from. oddly enough though the two I am going to pick one is from a non-American, David Bowie and other does not concentrate on our biggest city also from a non-American but a Canadian.
During the 1970s, the Thin White Duke befriended Michigan native Iggy Pop, who was at the time the frontman for Ann Arbor garage rockers The Stooges. Allegedly, it was Pop who gave Bowie the inspiration for “Panic in Detroit,” which describes or alludes to a number of revolutionaries who were making their home in the city at the time. The song sounds jittery and paranoid, which, for some people, described how the city felt in the wake of the 1967 riots.
On November 10, 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald shipwrecked in Lake Superior, taking with it its entire crew of 29 men. One year later, Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter, released the single mythologizing the wreck. The song would eventually go on to be Fitzgerald’s second most popular single, peaking at #2 on the Billboard charts.
Can you find one, or two, songs that sum up your state? Any that you could call your favorites? Just hearing the music of the Fitzgerald song goves me chills.