John Denver died on Oct. 12, 1997, when the small plane he was piloting crashed in California ...

The song took about 10 minutes to compose and spent two weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 ...

John Denver spent much of his career singing about the beauty of the natural world, from the mountains of Colorado to the ...

John Denver created music that sometimes felt a little too earnest to be true. But the more the singer-songwriter's dedication to social and environmental causes became known, the more evident it was ...

Fifty-three years ago today, John Denver released a single that hit No. 1 after it appeared in a hit TV movie.

Perhaps best known for his 1971 hit “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” John Denver penned nearly 200 songs about delighting in nature, despising cities, and the overall trials and tribulations of being a ...

John Denver was born on Dec. 31, 1943, into an Air Force family, according to IMDb. His father was an Air Force officer and moved his family around quite a bit. While in Tucson, Arizona, Denver’s ...

Shortly before his death, the folk-country icon made a (John's Version) of many of his classic songs. Twenty-six years later, they're finally getting released in the U.S. By Steve Knopper In late 1996 ...

John Denver tunes like “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Rocky Mountain High” are country classics, beloved by music lovers of all ages and interests. While Denver eventually rose to prominence as ...

Most people can sing the chorus of “Rocky Mountain High,” John Denver‘s folk-rock Top 40 standard released just over fifty years ago, in October 1972: “The Colorado Rocky Mountain high / I’ve seen it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This year marks five decades since John Denver’s iconic, occasionally controversial and resolutely pastoral folk anthem “Rocky Mountain High” was released, ...