John Denver was an American singer-songwriter known for his wholesome, sentimental music that extolled nature’s and life’s simple pleasures. His hit songs of the 1970s included “Leaving on a Jet Plane, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” “Rocky Mountain High,” and “Sunshine on My Shoulders.” Born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., in New Mexico in 1943, he later took the name of the capital of Colorado, a state whose natural beauty he especially loved. Denver died in 1997 when the handmade experimental airplane he was flying crashed off the coast of California. He was 53.
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