Denver — born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. — was 53 years old when he died. He grew up in Roswell, N.M., and learned to fly from his father, who was an Air Force pilot, according to the singer's ...

As she continued navigating through the genre, her friend John Denver, who picked up the Entertainer of the Year Award from the Country Music Association in 1975, was doing the same, yet both were ...