17 December 2016

Same Old Lang Syne


Just had to share this wonderful piece from tomorrow’s New York Times Sunday magazine section. This has long been one of my very favorite Dan Fogelberg songs.

I had forgotten that yesterday was the 9th anniversary of Dan’s untimely death at age 56 from metastatic prostate cancer. But his music remains a beautiful legacy.

Dan talked about this song a few times that we saw him perform over the years.  The legend goes that he had once told a friend that he could write song lyrics to pretty much any tune, and the friend said “well, how about Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture?” and the result was this song, based on a true incident in Dan’s life.

Enjoy!

Love,


Rebecca

Here is the NYT article

 http://nyti.ms/2hEGY3B




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