Hello John Denver fans we listed some interesting facts about John Denver
John Denver Facts
1- John Denver – whose real name is Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. – was born on December 31, 1943
2- Denver got married to Annie Martell in the year 1968. The couple had two children
3- John Denver was gifted with a Gibson guitar, when he was only 2 years old, by his grandmother and that was how he was initiated into the world of music.
4- John Denver’s last public performance was in Corpus Christi, Texas on October 5, 1997
5- Denver tragically lost his life in an airplane crash near the coast of Monterey Bay, California.
6- Denver lost his 2 toes in a lawnmower accident when he was 18
7- Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a close friend of Denver.
8- He won the Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year Award in 1975
9- Many of Denver’s songs reflected his relationship with nature and indeed, one of his greatest pleasures was spending time outdoors.
10- His passion to help create a global community paved the way for ventures into new musical and geographic territories
11- John Denver was a pilot with over 2,700 hours of experience
12- In the most ironic way possible, his father served as a pilot for the U.S. Air Force.
13- His parents were Captain Henry John ‘Dutch’ Deutschendorf Sr (1920–1982), a United States Army Air Forces pilot stationed at Roswell Army Air Field, and Erma Louise (née Swope; 1922–2010).
14- He also appeared in several films and TV shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including 1977’s Oh, God! alongside George Burns.
15- In 2014, an exhibit of more than forty never-before-seen photos taken by Denver debuted at Leon Gallery in Denver, Colorado.
16- Back in 1977, he founded the World Hunger Project and he was also assigned to the Commission on World and Domestic Hunger.
17- Denver’s iconic song “Leaving on a Jet Plane” was about the loneliness he felt when he was touring all over America.
