Take me home autobiography
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With Arthur Tobier
Ever since I was a teenager with my own room, my own money, and my own record player on which I could play the music I liked, I&#;ve been a John Denver fan. It all rolls back to his top-selling album, John Denver&#;s Greatest Hits, the one where He&#;s sitting laughing in field of flowers holding onto his cowboy hat. Man, I loved that album.
The problem for me, though, is that I was coming into the Folk music game about 30 years too late. This was the mids, actually, and I was probably the only teen buying up records at the time, so anything &#;new&#; to me was actually the stuff that had been popular during my parents&#; own teenage years.
John Denver wasn&#;t much in the news when inom finally came around to enjoy him (at least, not until his untimely death in the plane accident in , three years after he published this autobiography), so while I had been aware of some of John Denver&#;s oddities from the snippets my mom had told me, I really didn’t know a wh
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Take Me Home: An Autobiography
In a career that has spanned twenty-five years, John Denver has earned international acclaim as a singer, songwriter, actor, and environmental activist. Songs like "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Annie's Song" have entered the canon of universal anthems, but less than three decades ago, John Denver was a young man with little more than a fine voice, a guitar, and a dream. Growing up in a conservative military family, he was not expected to drop out of college and head to Los Angeles, where the music scene was flourishing. Nor was he expected to succeed. In Take Me Home, John Denver chronicles the experiences that shaped his life, while unraveling the rich, inner journey of a shy Midwestern boy whose uneasy partnership with fame has been one of the defining forces of his first fifty years.
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Take Me Home: An Autobiography
In a career that spanned decades, John Denver earned international acclaim as a singer, songwriter, actor, and environmental activist. Songs like "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Annie's Song" have entered the canon of universal anthems, but at his start John Denver was a young man with little more than a fine voice, a guitar, and a dream. Growing up in a conservative military family, he was not expected to drop out of college and head to Los Angeles, where the music scene was flourishing. Nor was he expected to succeed. In Take Me Home, John Denver chronicles the experiences that shaped his life, while unraveling the rich, inner journey of a shy Midwestern boy whose uneasy partnership with fame has been one of the defining forces of his first fifty years. With candor and wit, John writes about his childhood, the experience of hitting L.A. as the Sixties roared into full swing, his first breaks, his years with the Mitchel