Musician, Songwriter. He will be best remembered for his late 1970s & early 1980s soft rock hits, "Longer" (1979), "Same Old Lang Syne" (1980) and "Leader of the Band" (1981). Born Daniel Grayling Fogelberg into a musically-inclined family, his father was a bandleader, his mother a Scottish immigrant was a classically-trained pianist. During his youth, he taught himself how to play the guitar, in addition to taking piano lessons and started his first band while a teenager, under the influence of The Beatles. By his senior year in high school, he focused on art and theater and following graduation, he attended the University of Illinois where he majored in Theater. Dan gravitated back to music after dropping out of college in 1971 and performed in local cafes. He landed a record contract with Columbia Records (CBS) and released his debut effort "Home Free" (1972) while also during this time period, he worked as a session musician for numerous artists among them: Jackson Browne and Joe Walsh (Eagles/James Gang/Barnstorm). His second album "Souvenirs" (1974) included his first pop-chart placing with "Part of the Plan" (reaching number 31 in 1975) and after his initial pairing with flutist Tim Weisberg the result was the Top-30 single "The Power of Gold" (1978). The tear-jerker "Longer" from the album "Phoenix" (1979) earned him a number 2 spot on the pop charts in early 1980 and "Same Old Lang Syne" from the album "The Innocent Age" (1981) peaked at number 9 in late of that year. The 1981 album, "The Innocent Age" featured the hit "Leader of the Band" which was a sentimental tribute to his father and that same year "Run For the Roses" was released as a single from the "Innocent Age" album. Dan's last chart placing was the 1985 hit "The Language of Love" which reached number 13. He remained active over the last two decades recording and touring until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2004. He succumbed from the disease in 2007 at the age of 56, leaving behind more than 30 years of heartfelt recordings.