Today’s Country Legend was born December 31st in Roswell, New Mexico

After his father who was a member of the miltary was transferred first to Alabama then Ft Worth drove his father’s car to California to visit family friends and begin his music career. His father flew to California in a friend’s jet to retrieve him, and Denver reluctantly returned to complete his schooling.

appeared in several films and television specials during the 1970s and 1980s,

recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he wrote himself.

was killed in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane in