He Ran Into A High School Girlfriend After He Was A STAR-Event Became An 80s HIT | Professor of Rock

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Coming up a once upon a time a fledgling singer songwriter named Dan Fogelberg went back to his hometown for the holidays and ran into an ex girlfriend at a convenience store.  He turned the fateful meeting of joy and sorrow in the the 1981 hit, Same Old Lang Syne from his album the Innocent Age.  one of the most bittersweet story songs of the 80s.  find out the real story beyond the poetic licenses that all artists take and celebrate one of the purest voices of the rock era including interviews next.

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Christmas music is a very polarizing.  Some love it.  Some Hate it.  Everyone has an opinion about it. Well my favorite Christmas song of all time, really isn’t a Christmas song per say.  At least not a traditional one, but in my definition it transcends the holidays and gets straight to the deepest of human emotions that only great music can evoke.  

it comes from one of the rock era’s purest and most angelic voices.  He is one of the most realistic songwriter out there. . I’m talking about Dan Fogelberg and his classic 1981 top 10 hit . realized in 80 but hitting it’s peak position in early 81  Same Old Lang Syne.  Today We are going to go in depth on that classic song and we also have an interview with one Dan’s foremost musical collaborator’s, Legendary Producer Norbert Putt Putnam.   Sadly Dan passed away at just 56 years of age from Prostate Cancer. He has left a musical legacy that will last forever.  So let’s get right into it.

Dan Fogelberg was born in Peoria, Illinois. The  youngest of three sons born to musical parent. Mother MArgaret was a classically trained pianist, and his Father Lawrence Peter Fogelberg who Dan affectionally covered in Dan’s exquisite top 10 hit the leader of the band was in fact a band director at Woodruff High School in Peoria, at Pekin Community High School in Pekin,
and at Bradley University in Peoria.

Dan immediately gravitated toward music and taught himself to play guitar and the piUsing a Mel Bay course book, Dan taught himself to play a Hawaiian slide guitar that his grandfather had given him. He also learned to play the piano. When Dan was only 14 years old he joined a band called The Clan, which played mostly Beatle tunes  Then he was in another band called The Coachmen, and in 1967, they released a single with both sides written by Fogelberg, After he graduated form High School, He studied theater arts and painting at the University of Illinois while at the same time playing live music with a folk rock band.

From there he started doing gigging as a solo acoustic artist around the town  where he was discovered by now Music Mogul Irving Azoff.,    Azoff sent him to Nashville to to hone his craft.  I spoke with his first producer and frequent collaborator  Norbert Putnam about this here’s what he said:  …
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