Dan Fogelberg
- 56 years old
- Born Aug 13, 1951
- Died Dec 16, 2007
- United States
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Dan Fogelberg has created songs that have become so embedded in our collective consciousness that they still resound with authentic magic and beauty years after they first emerged.
I was raised by a river
Weaned upon the sky
And in the mirror of the waters
I saw myself learn to cry
from The River
His story starts in Illinois. In Peoria, specifically, a little town that in the words of Charles Kurault, is in the middle of the state, in the middle of the country, in the middle of the world. Born the youngest of three sons, he was raised in a musical home. His father, Lawrence Fogelberg, was a "legitimate musician" as Dan refers to him, a bandleader who led the big bands long before Dan was born. His mother, Margaret Irvine, was born in Scotland and came to Illinois with her parents at the age of three. A gifted singer, she studied operatic singing throughout college, and it's she who Dan points to as the source of his innate vocal prowess.
"You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work," he said. "For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do."
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to the morning
khawk42 Jan 27, 2010
And I've been on top
But mostly I've lived in between"
My sister wrote this in her senior yearbook. She was 18 and it was 1978. I was 21 and about two years into Dan Fogelberg's music. That was how my family lived.
The first four albums were and remain masterpieces. His music became part of the soundtrack of my life at that time and will always be a special part of my rock n' roll soul. Nights as we sang along when were kids, sometimes at the top of our lungs, feeling a part of someone and something so special."Well it looks like you're gonna have to see me again ...ILLINOIS, ILLINOIS!
Though I did drift from the later efforts when the hits were made, it was "The Leader of the Band" that I concluded my father's eulogy with in 1994. The words were so appropos and it seemed that Fogelberg's affection for his father were quite in line with my sentiments for my dad..
We were all blessed that he chose to share his talents with us and his music will always follow me wherever I go.
Christmas
Tom Webster Jan 17, 2010
Tom and Faith
my love for the man dan was
kim anderson Jan 16, 2010
Music made for eternity
Olav Haaland Jan 09, 2010
Thanks for all of your uplifting givings to Mankind - you`re ONE of a kind!
May your soul find the TRUE light!