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John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., known professionally as John Denver, was an American country and folk singer, songwriter, and actor. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s and one of the best-selling artists overall in that decade. AllMusic has called Denver "among the most beloved entertainers of his era".
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entertainment · American singer (1943–1997) · singer-songwriter · singer · poet · composer · actor · songwriter · guitarist · record producer · writer · lyricist · also John Denver, Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., John Deutschendorf Jr., Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., John Deutschendorf, Jr., Denver
Born 31 December 1943 · Died 12 October 1997 · Q105460
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2026· 3 entries
“An overachiever like John Denver couldn”
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Public attention spiked: 35,715 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.4× the usual 4,800, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
By a joint British and American team of arachnologists in a paper titled "Country roads, take me home: Cyclocosmia johndenveri, a new species of trapdoor spider from the mountains of West Virginia (Araneae: Halonoproctid
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2022· 10 entries
Published video “John Denver - Season Suite: Winter (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Prisoners (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Goodbye Again (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Season Suite: Fall (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Season Suite: Spring (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Season Suite: Summer (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Season Suite: Late Winter, Early Spring (When Everybody Goes to Mexico) (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - For Baby (For Bobbie) (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Paradise (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “John Denver - Mother Nature's Son (Official Audio)”.
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2014· 2 entries
Denver was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California
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The West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make "Take Me Home, Country Roads" the official state song
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2011· 1 entry
Denver became the first inductee into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame
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2009· 1 entry
A DVD box set of previously unreleased concert recordings from Denver's career was released by Eagle Rock Entertainment
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2007· 3 entries
The California Friends of John Denver and The Windstar Foundation unveiled a bronze plaque near the spot where his plane went down
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The Colorado Senate passed a resolution to make Denver's trademark 1972 hit "Rocky Mountain High" one of the state's two official state songs, sharing the honor with its predecessor, "Where the Columbines Grow"
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And West Virginia did the same for "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in 2014
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Annie's Song: A Collection of His Finest Recordings”.
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Released album “Folk Singer”.
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Released album “16 Biggest Hits”.
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Released album “Collections”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “John Denver Rare and Unreleased”.
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2004· 5 entries
Released album “Memories of a Country Boy”.
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Released album “Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Essential”.
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Released album “Homegrown”.
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Released album “The Essential John Denver”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Songs From the Heart”.
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “Songs for America”.
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Released album “Goodbye Again”.
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Released album “The Story”.
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Released album “I miti musica: John Denver”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Legends”.
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Released album “The Complete Collection”.
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Released album “Poems, Prayers and Promises / Farewell Andromeda”.
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “Behind the Music: The John Denver Collection”.
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Snopes rated the claim “John Denver once served as a U.S. Army sniper in Vietnam.” False.
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Released album “Take Me Home: The John Denver Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of the Rocky Mountain Collection”.
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CBS aired the television biopic Take Me Home: The John Denver Story loosely based on his memoirs, starring Chad Lowe as Denver
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“John Denver: The Wildlife Concert,”
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1999· 6 entries
Released album “Best: Country Roads”.
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Released album “Legendary John Denver”.
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But the project was put on hold at the request of Denver's family
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Released album “Thank God I'm A Country Boy - Greatest Country Songs”.
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Released album “The Very Best of John Denver”.
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Released album “Portrait”.
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1998· 6 entries
Released album “Greatest Country Hits”.
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Released album “The Best of John Denver”.
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Released album “Forever, John”.
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Denver posthumously received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Folk Music Association, which also established a new award in his honor, the John Denver Memorial Award, in 1999
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Released album “Take Me Home Countryroads”.
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Released album “Love Songs & Poetry”.
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1997· 18 entries
Officiated by Pastor Les Felker, a retired Air Force chaplain, after which Denver's remains were cremated and his ashes scattered in the Rocky Mountains
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Died 1997-10-12.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “All Aboard!”.
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Released album “The John Denver Collection”.
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1997).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children for All Aboard! (1997).
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Released album “Calypso”.
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Released album “Annie's Song”.
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Released album “His Greatest Hits and Finest Performances”.
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Released album “The Country Roads Collection”.
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Released album “Rocky Mountain High”.
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In a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane
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Denver filmed an episode for the television series Nature centering on the natural wonders that inspired many of his best-loved songs
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Released album “Country Roads: The Very Best of John Denver”.
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Released album “Sunshine on My Shoulders”.
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Released album “Rocky Mountain High: The Very Best of John Denver”.
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Released album “Take Me Home, Country Roads”.
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1996· 7 entries
Released album “Reflections: Songs of Love & Life”.
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The FAA determined that Denver was medically disqualified from operating an aircraft due to his failure to abstain from alcohol
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Denver was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Nearly a year before the crash, the FAA learned that Denver had failed to maintain sobriety by not refraining entirely from alcohol and revoked his medical certification
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Released album “The Rocky Mountain Collection”.
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Released album “The Unplugged Collection”.
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Released album “Love Again: Greatest and Latest”.
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Take Me Home: 16 Great Songs”.
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Released album “Two Different Directions”.
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Released album “Gold Collection”.
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Released album “Country Classics”.
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1994· 1 entry
Denver published his autobiography Take Me Home, in which he candidly spoke of his drug use, marital infidelities, and history of domestic violence
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Voice of America”.
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Denver pleaded guilty to a drunken driving charge and was placed on probation
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Released album “The Gift You Are”.
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1992· 2 entries
Denver and fellow singers Liza Minnelli and John Oates performed a benefit to fight the passage of Colorado Amendment 2, a ballot measure approved by voters that prevented Colorado municipalities from enacting anti-discr
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Released album “Favourites”.
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “Different Directions”.
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Denver and Delaney separated in 1991 and divorced two years later.
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“before our short-lived marriage ended in divorce, she managed to make a fool of me from one end of the valley to the other.”
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “The Flower That Shattered the Stone”.
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Released album “Earth Songs”.
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Released album “Christmas Like a Lullaby”.
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Released album “Het beste van”.
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1989· 3 entries
Denver was in a plane accident while taxiing down the runway at Holbrook Municipal Airport near Holbrook, Arizona, in his vintage 1931 biplane
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Released album “Stonehaven Sunrise”.
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Released album “Best”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Higher Ground”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “I Want to Live”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “One World”.
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “Dreamland Express”.
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For "helping to increase awareness of space exploration by the peoples of the world
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Released album “Collection”.
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Denver asked to participate in the singing of "We Are the World" but was rejected despite his previous commitment to charity work
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1984· 4 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 3”.
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“moved by the things I saw on television. For the first time, I heard some very prominent statements about the sacrifice of the Russian people. In the city of Leningrad alone, they lost more people than the United States lost.”
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And performances at Farm Aid from 1985, 1987, and 1990
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ABC Sports president Roone Arledge asked Denver to compose and sing the theme song for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo
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1983· 4 entries
Released album “Seine großen Erfolge”.
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Released album “It's About Time”.
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And 1984, Denver hosted the annual Grammy Awards, as he had previously done in 1977, 1978, and 1979
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In a 1983 interview shown in the documentary John Denver: Country Boy (2013), Denver said that career demands drove them apart.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Seasons of the Heart”.
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Because of Weintraub's focus on other projects, Weintraub threw Denver out of his office and accused him of Nazism
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Some Days Are Diamonds”.
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Released album “Perhaps Love”.
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “Autograph”.
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Co-hosted an award-winning television special, The Higher We Fly: The History of Flight
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1979· 4 entries
Released album “A Christmas Together”.
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Denver was the largest single donor
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Denver performed "Rhymes & Reasons" at the Music for UNICEF Concert
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume Two”.
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Denver co-founded The Hunger Project with Werner Erhard and Robert W
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Denver starred in the hit comedy film Oh, God
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1976· 5 entries
Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Country Album for Back Home Again (1976).
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Awarded Favorite Country Male Artist (1976).
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Awarded Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist (1976).
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Released album “Spirit”.
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Denver and Newton-John appeared as guest stars on The Carpenters' First Television Special, a one-hour special broadcast on the ABC Television network
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1975· 6 entries
Released album “Windsong”.
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special (1975).
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Awarded Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year (1975).
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Awarded Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist (1975).
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Released album “Rocky Mountain Christmas”.
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Denver was awarded the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award
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1974· 4 entries
Released album “Back Home Again”.
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Denver bought a Learjet to fly himself to concerts
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And 1975, Denver had a string of four number 1 songs ("Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Annie's Song", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", and "I'm Sorry") and three number 1 albums (John Denver's Greatest Hits, Back Home Again, a
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Denver was named poet laureate of the state
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1973· 3 entries
Denver starred in his own BBC television series, The John Denver Show, a weekly music and variety show directed and produced by Stanley Dorfman
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Released album “John Denver’s Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Farewell Andromeda”.
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1972· 1 entry
Denver had his first Top Ten album with Rocky Mountain High, with its title track reaching the Top Ten in 1973
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Aerie”.
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Released album “Poems, Prayers & Promises”.
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1970· 3 entries
Take Me to Tomorrow and Whose Garden Was This, including a mix of songs he had written and covers of other writers' compositions
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Released album “Take Me to Tomorrow”.
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Released album “Whose Garden Was This”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Rhymes & Reasons”.
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Denver abandoned band life to pursue a solo career and released his first album for RCA Records, Rhymes & Reasons
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “John Denver Sings”.
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1965· 1 entry
Denver joined The Chad Mitchell Trio, replacing founder Chad Mitchell
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1963· 1 entry
And moved to Los Angeles, where he sang in folk clubs
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-12-31.
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In Roswell, New Mexico, to Erma Louise (née Swope; 1922–2010) and Captain Henry John "Dutch" Deutschendorf Sr
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