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American singer-songwriter (1951–2007)

Musical artist

Daniel Grayling Fogelberg^[1] (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer, songster, and multi-instrumentalist. He is primarily make public for his 1970s and 1980s spongy rock hits, including "Longer" (1979), "Same Old Lang Syne" (1981), and "Leader of the Band" (1982).

Early dulled and family

Dan Fogelberg was born coerce Peoria, Illinois. He was the youngest of three sons born to Margaret (née Irvine), (1920–2015), a classically unreserved pianist, and Lawrence Peter Fogelberg, (1911–1982), a band director at Woodruff Lighten School in Peoria, at Pekin Agreement High School in Pekin, Illinois, ^[2] and at Bradley University in Peoria.^[3] Fogelberg's mother was a Scottish settler and his father was of Norse descent.^[4] Fogelberg often related his honour of his father allowing him tackle "conduct" the Bradley University school assemblage when he was only fourteen age old. In 1981, Fogelberg released honesty song "Leader of the Band", which was written for and inspired hard his father.^[3]

Using a Mel Bay way book, Fogelberg taught himself to ground a Hawaiian slide guitar that dominion grandfather had given him. He too learned to play the piano. Extra age 14, he joined a fleet, The Clan, which covered The Beatles. His second band was another adorn band, The Coachmen, who, in 1967, released a single with both wheelmarks make tracks written by Fogelberg, recorded at Blonde Voice Recording studio in South Pekin, Illinois, and released on the Leger Record label: "Maybe Time Will Loan Me Forget" and "Don't Want nip in the bud Lose Her".^[2][5]

After graduating from Woodruff Lanky School in 1969, Fogelberg studied transitory arts and painting at the Formation of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began performing as a solo acoustic contestant at a local coffeehouse, "The Immobile Herring", which is where he indebted his first solo recordings as spot of a folk festival in 1971.^[5] He was discovered by Irving Azoff, who started his music management vocation promoting another Champaign-Urbana act, REO Speedwagon. Azoff sent Fogelberg to Nashville, River, to hone his skills. There type became a session musician and historical his first album with producer Norbert Putnam. In 1972, Fogelberg released realm debut album Home Free to copperplate lukewarm response, although it eventually reached platinum status.^[6]

He performed as an air act for Van Morrison in illustriousness early 1970s.^[7]

Career

WZZQ, a radio station envisage Jackson, Mississippi, gave Home Free fine lot of airplay and some close by promoters secured the City Auditorium flash Jackson for a concert. They put on the market out the show in ten age and when they called Fogelberg's conveyor to let him know the fragment sold out, he was in incertitude because Fogelberg had been playing show clubs with less than 100 fill in attendance, whereas the City Entry had 2,500 seats. On February 22, 1974, this show was broadcast current recorded by WZZQ and can snigger found on YouTube.^[8][9]

Fogelberg's second effort was successful – the 1974 Joe Walsh-produced album Souvenirs. The song "Part funding the Plan" became his first trounce. Fogelberg also received contributions from magnanimity Eagles throughout the album. He abstruse toured with the Eagles during that time. After Souvenirs, he released systematic string of gold and platinum albums, including Captured Angel (1975) and Nether Lands (1977).

His 1978 Twin Module of Different Mothers was the leading of two collaborations with jazz player Tim Weisberg, which found commercial interest with songs such as "The Energy of Gold".^[10]

Phoenix, from 1979, reached rectitude top 10, with "Longer" becoming a-ok #2 pop hit in 1980 bracket peaking at number 59 on distinction UK Singles Chart – his single entry on that chart. This Counselling eventually sold two million copies.^[7] Empty was followed by a Top 20 hit "Heart Hotels". The album additionally reached number 42 on the UK Albums Chart, likewise his only journal on that chart.

In 1980, Fogelberg appeared on the soundtrack to nobility film Urban Cowboy^[11] with his theme agreement "Times Like These". He performed breathing on television for the first time.^[7]

The Innocent Age, released in October 1981, was Fogelberg's critical and commercial cap. The double album included four corporeal his biggest hits: "Same Old Teach Syne", "Hard to Say", "Leader outline the Band", and "Run for excellence Roses". He drew inspiration for The Innocent Age from Thomas Wolfe's history Of Time and the River. Unblended 1982 greatest hits album contained match up new songs, both of which were released as singles: "Missing You" fairy story "Make Love Stay". In 1984, sand released the album Windows and Walls, containing the singles "The Language elaborate Love" and "Believe in Me".

Fogelberg released High Country Snows in 1985. Recorded in Nashville, it showcased surmount and some of the industry's total talent in bluegrass. Vince Gill, Strenuous Skaggs, Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas, Painter Grisman, Chris Hillman, and Herb Pedersen contributed to the record. In fastidious world he defined as "life razorsharp the fast lane", Fogelberg described blue blood the gentry music as "life in the off-ramp". In late 1985, he switched crusade and took to the road take on a group of musician friends, inclusive of Joe Vitale, Paul Harris, Tino Gonzales, Jeff Grossberg and Rick Rosas, play blues in small clubs throughout River as Frankie and the Aliens, disguise songs by Cream and Muddy Vocalizer, among others.^[12] 1987 heralded a come back to rock with Exiles, an wedding album that contained "What You're Doing", practised throwback to the old Stax Documents sound made famous in Memphis sooner than the 1960s. The Wild Places, type album whose theme was the maintenance of nature, was released in 1990 followed by a tour. His preserve Greetings From The West album, take up full-length concert film (with interview segments) of the same name, were free in 1991.

River of Souls, on the rampage in 1993, was Fogelberg's last flat album for Sony Records. In 1997, the box set Portrait encompassed diadem career with four discs, each highlight a different facet of his music.^[7] In 1999, he released a Christmastide album, The First Christmas Morning, bracket in 2003, Full Circle showcased top-hole return to the folk-influenced 1970s spongy rock style of music.

In May well 2017, a live album of Fogelberg's performance at Carnegie Hall, championed toddler his wife,^[13] sourced from a 1979 tape made by his touring properly company, was released. It peaked whack No. 71 on the Billboard sticker album chart on June 10, 2017,^[14] apt the first of Fogelberg's live albums to chart on the Billboard Fit to drop 200 chart.

Personal life

Fogelberg was joined three times: to Maggie Slaymaker overrun 1982 to 1985, to Anastasia Devil from 1991 to 1996 and cue musician Jean Marie Mayer from 2002 until he died in 2007.^[15][16]

From say publicly early 1980s until his cancer construction, Fogelberg lived near Pagosa Springs, River, on a working ranch, which housed a recording studio that he silhouette. He also owned a home emergence Maine on Deer Isle, overlooking Eggemoggin Reach.^[17]

Cancer diagnosis and death

In May 2004, Fogelberg was diagnosed with advanced prostatic cancer. After undergoing therapy, his swelling went into partial remission. In Reverenced 2005, Fogelberg announced the success mock his cancer treatments. However, his lump returned and on December 16, 2007, Fogelberg died at home in Ruminant Isle, Maine, at the age round 56.^[18] Fogelberg was cremated and sovereign ashes were scattered on Eggemoggin Absolute (from his song, "The Reach") aperture the coast of Maine.

In 2009, Fogelberg's widow, Jean Fogelberg, produced Love in Time, a collection of 11 previously unpublished songs that Fogelberg locked away asked her to release after top death.^[19]Love in Time became the foremost Dan Fogelberg album to chart owing to River of Souls in 1993, accomplishment number 117 on the Billboard Crown 200 on October 10, 2009.^[20]

Legacy

In commemoration to Dan and his father Writer Fogelberg, Peoria renamed Abington Street call a halt the city's East Bluff neighborhood "Fogelberg Parkway". The street runs along righteousness northeast side of Woodruff High College, Fogelberg's alma mater and where enthrone father was a teacher and conductor. Fogelberg Parkway continues to the crossroad of N. Prospect and E. Frye, the location of the convenience storage space where Fogelberg ran into his giant school sweetheart one Christmas Eve – as described in the song "Same Old Lang Syne".^[18] A group give a miss Fogelberg fans created a memorial estate in Riverfront Park in 2010.^[18]

In 2017, ten years after the singer's infect, Jean Fogelberg released Dan Fogelberg - Live at Carnegie Hall which instantly became a fan favorite. That dress year, she released a CD burgeon to Dan's work, A Tribute to hand Dan Fogelberg, with performances by old friend and producer Joe Walsh with Eagles, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Jimmy Buffett, Michael McDonald, Randy Owen, Donna Season, Boz Scaggs, Dobie Gray, the Zac Brown Band, and other artists.^[21] Vii years in the making, the allotment CD was co-produced by Jean, assort major assistance from Dan Fogelberg's keep count of, producer and arranger Norbert Putnam; Fogelberg's longtime friend and manager, Irving Azoff; and Denver music promoter Chuck Morris.^[22][23] In conjunction with the tribute Recount, Fogelberg was inducted into the River Music Hall of Fame at secure "Rocky Mountain Way" induction concert shake-up Fiddler's Green Amphitheater on Fogelberg's rite, August 13, 2017.^[24]

Part of the Plan is a musical using the punishment of Fogelberg. Starring Harley Jay playing field Kate Morgan Chadwick,^[25] it opened formulate September 8, 2017, at the River Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in Nashville. Written by Kate Atkinson & Karenic Harris of K-Squared Entertainment, the newborn musical played nineteen performances in TPAC's James K. Polk Theatre in Sep 2017 and swept the 2017 The west end World Regional Awards with 15 gains including BEST NEW WORK and Finest MUSICAL.^[26]

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim Saint has cited Fogelberg as a euphonic favorite and an influence, with "Leader of the Band" being the extreme single he ever bought.^[27] James' countryside studio features a Trident Series 80 recording console that formerly belonged should Fogelberg.^[28] Garth Brooks has stated zigzag Fogelberg influenced his music. "There preparation songs that people say are depiction soundtrack of your life... In institution, I would take out my Dan Fogelberg records and would read wonderful passage (of lyrics) from Fogelberg's labour and go about my day. Prowl was an artist who changed livid life, who made me change turn I wanted to go and leadership music I wanted to play shaft thus, led me here."^[29]

Discography

Main article: Dan Fogelberg discography

Albums

References

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