Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about DAN FOGELBERG!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: he is known for his 1980s songs, including “Longer” (1979), “Same Old Lang Syne” (1980), and “Leader of the Band” (1982) he was the youngest of Fogelberg senior was band director at Bradley university in peoria . at age 14, he joined a band, The Clan, which covered The Beatles . his second band was another cover band, the Coachmen . “Maybe Time Will Let Me Forget” and “Don’t Want to Lose Her” were cut at Golden Voice Recording studio in South Pekin, Illinois . they were released on Ledger Record’s label: he performed as an opening act for Van Morrison in the early 1970s . the song “Part of the Plan” became Fogelberg’s first hit . he released a string of gold and platinum albums, including Captured Angel (1975) and Nether Lands (1977) his 1978 Twin Sons of Different Mothers was the first of two collaborations with jazz flaut in 1980, Fogelberg appeared on the soundtrack to the film Urban Cowboy with his song Times Like These . the double album included four of his biggest hits: “Same Old Lang Syne”, “Hard to Say”, in 1984, he released the album Windows and Walls, containing the singles “the Language of Love” and “Believe in Me” according to MTV, “fogelberg couldn’t capitalize fully on his 1987 heralded a return to rock with Exiles, an album that contained “What You’re Doing” exiles was a throwback to the old Stax Records sound made famous in Memphis during the 1960 Greetings from the west album, and full-length concert film, were released in 1991 . River of Souls, released in 1993, was Fogelberg’s last studio album for Sony Records . in 1997, the box the album peaked at #71 on the Billboard Album Charts on June 10, 2017 . it became the first of Fogelberg’s live albums to chart on the billboard Top 200 albums . he had no children by after undergoing therapy, his cancer went into partial remission . in august 2005, Fogelberg announced the success of his cancer treatments . on december 16, 2007, he died at home in Deer Isle, Maine, the tribute CD was co-produced by Jean, with major assistance from Dan Fogelberg’s friend, producer and arranger Norbert Putnam . the band’s old friend and manager Irving Azoff, and Denver music promoter Garth Brooks has been vocal about the impact that Fogelberg and his work had on his life and music . “that was an artist who changed my life, who made me change where I wanted to go and the music I wanted