{"id":871,"date":"2007-12-17T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T10:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/dan-fogelberg-dies\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T13:14:20","slug":"dan-fogelberg-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Dan Fogelberg dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Dan-Fogelberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5099\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Dan-Fogelberg.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Fogelberg\" width=\"650\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Dan-Fogelberg.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Dan-Fogelberg-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits &#8220;Leader of the Band&#8221; and &#8220;Same Old Lang Syne&#8221; helped define the soft-rock era, and who used to play now and then in Detroit back in the day, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced Sunday in a statement by Anna Loynes of the Solters &amp; Digney public relations agency, and was also posted on the singer&#8217;s Web site.<br clear=\"none\" \/> <br clear=\"none\" \/> &#8220;Dan left us this morning at 6:00 a.m. He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at home in Maine with his wife Jean at his side,&#8221; it read. &#8220;His strength, dignity and grace in the face of the daunting challenges of this disease were an inspiration to all who knew him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Dan Fogelberg\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danfogelberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><!--123f465975a7578dd748621a666a0de1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits &#8220;Leader of the Band&#8221; and &#8220;Same Old Lang Syne&#8221; helped define the soft-rock era, and who used to play now and then in Detroit back in the day, died &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}