“One of my dearest friends is Jimmy Buffett. Music doesn’t really reflect the whole person. “I think it probably really started on the radio.
“That came from my singles in the early ’80s,” he said.
But in an interview with The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 1997, he said it did not represent his personality. Fogelberg’s songs tended to have a weighty tone, reflecting on emotional issues in a serious way. Fogelberg put out his first album in 1972. Fogelberg’s heyday was in the 1970s and early ’80s, when he scored several platinum and multiplatinum records fueled by such hits as “The Power of Gold” and “Leader of the Band,” a touching tribute he wrote to his father, a bandleader. Songs like “Same Old Lang Syne,” in which a man reminisces after meeting an old girlfriend by chance during the holidays, became classics not only for his performance, but also for their engaging story lines. He did not rely on the volume of his voice to convey his emotions instead, they came through in his soft, tender delivery and his poignant lyrics. Fogelberg’s music was powerful in its simplicity. “I thank you from the very depths of my heart.” “It is truly overwhelming and humbling to realize how many lives my music has touched so deeply all these years,” he wrote. In a statement then, he thanked fans for their support. Fogelberg learned he had advanced prostate cancer in 2004. His death was announced Sunday in a statement released by his family through the firm Scoop Marketing and also posted on his Web site. Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne” helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer.
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