Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.
A memorable case is Nicolas Cage, who refused the role of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, which he later admitted he regretted. At the time, he didn't believe in the future of the movie and didn't ...