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John Denver was America's biggest-selling solo star of the '70s. In commercial terms he was on a par with Sinatra in the '40s, Elvis in the '50s and the Beatles in the '60s. He experimented with a variety of styles and won fans from such diverse worlds as folk, pop and country music. Beneath the often tranquil surface of his music and his clear, clean tenor voice, however, lurked a darker side to Denver's character. The writer of 'Annie's Song', one of the most straightforward and personal expressions of love, became a wife-beater. The man who cavorted with the Muppets was an alcoholic. The committed environmentalist had his own plane, the most polluting form of transport. John Collis has delved deep to discover exactly who John Denver was. By unravelling the complexities of the singer's personality and background, he reveals Denver as a complicated, contradictory man, much more intriguing than the sometimes placid surface of his music might suggest. Millions of people around the globe found something in his music that touched their souls; Collis, by charting Denver's career and development as an artist, explores his legendary contribution not only to the world of music but a

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Say it ain't so. Could it be that pop star John Denver--a bard of love and life and American's best-selling solo star of the 70s--abused his wife? That the hard-core environmentalist was a private-plane-flying air polluter?...While discussing the dark sides that may...have lurked beneath Denver's grin, Collis also gives a nod to the positive impact of the singer's ecological activism and wholesome music.

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John Collis is a former music editor of Time Out and his many books include Van Morrison- Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, The Story of Chess Records, The Musicians' Bible, Chuck Berry- The Biography and Ike Turner- King of Rhythm. He is also a cricket writer for The Guardian.

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