John Denver Bio Plus Lyrics And Acoustic Tutorials
You'll Find Links To 5 John Denver Acoustic Guitar Tutorials In This Section
Welcome to this John Denver Bio page where you'll find some general info of this great American performer.
There is also some unique video footage of John Denver in this leg of the site on the song lyric pages.
In 1974 John wrote Annie's Song for his wife Ann Martel. He said it took only 10 minutes while riding on a ski lift.
To add to the John Denver bio is the fact he was born in Roswell, New Mexico, and was a military brat as his dad was in the service. He would have been 5yrs old around the time of the so called UFO crash in Roswell.
He was also appointed by then president Jimmy Carter, to serve on his commission for World Hunger.
John Denver was well liked by Johnny Carson and hosted The Tonight Show several times during the 70's and 80's. A little known fact also is the song
Country Roads is the official West Virginia University theme song ... and is sung at football games and all sorts of other events at the university.
John Denver Interview
He won the CMA Entertainer Of The Year Award and when his successor, Charlie Rich, announced his name, Rich burned the envelope with a lighter. Now that took guts on National TV!
The song Country Roads was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert who sang their version to John. Then the three of them stayed up til 6am one morning until they got all of the lyrics in the right place.
John Denver's real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. and he recorded more than 300 songs during his career, half of those he wrote himself.
The song Leaving On A Jet Plane, was written by Denver and became a hit for Peter Paul and Mary in the 60's.
The John Denver death in Oct 1997 came as a shock to the music world. He was only 53 when the small aircraft he was flying
went out of control and crashed into the Pacific Ocean at Pacific Grove in California. The crash was so severe that he was
identified by dental records only.
To add to the John Denver bio is the fact he was born in Roswell, New Mexico, and was a military brat as his dad was in the service. He would have been 5yrs old around the time of the so called UFO crash in Roswell.
The song Country Roads was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert who sang their version to John. Then the three of them stayed up til 6am one morning until they got all of the lyrics in the right place.