John Denver

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• Burlington, Vermont 2012-10-16 (Morrissey concert)

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American guitarist, singer, composer, actor, humanitarian, and environmentalist born December 31, 1943 in Roswell, New Mexico and died October 12, 1997 at Pacific Grove, California when the single-engine airplane he was piloting crashed into the sea. He was 53 years old. He is known for popularizing acoustic folk music in the 1970s as part of the ongoing singer-songwriter movement of the mid-to-late 20th century. Denver is widely recognized as a cultural icon of the American West. He began his career as a folk singer in The Mitchell Trio and Denver, Boise & Johnson in the 1960s, before beginning his successful solo country and pop career of the 1970s and 80s. He was one of the top five best-selling artists of all time with 14 gold and eight platinum albums in the United States. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1996.

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• https://www.classicbands.com/denver.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver
• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000135/
• https://www.songhall.org/profile/John_Denver

Wikipedia Information

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s and one of the best selling artists in that decade. AllMusic has called Denver "among the most beloved entertainers of his era". Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he wrote himself. He had 33 albums and singles that were certified Gold and Platinum in the U.S by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with estimated sales of more than 33 million units. He recorded and performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, disdain for city life, enthusiasm for music, and relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts, including country music, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, earning 12 gold and four platinum albums with his signature songs "Take Me Home, Country Roads"; "Poems, Prayers & Promises"; "Annie's Song"; "Rocky Mountain High"; "Calypso"; "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"; and "Sunshine on My Shoulders". Denver appeared in several films and television specials during the 1970s and 1980s, including the 1977 hit Oh, God!, in which he starred alongside George Burns. He continued to record into the 1990s, also focusing on environmental issues as well as lending vocal support to space exploration and testifying in front of Congress to protest censorship in music. Known for his love of Colorado, Denver lived in Aspen for much of his life. In 1974, Denver was named poet laureate of the state. The Colorado state legislature also adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its two state songs in 2007, and West Virginia did the same for "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in 2014. An avid pilot, Denver was killed at age 53 in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane in 1997.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver

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