In an era of lilting, sentimental soft rock, Dan Fogelberg's heartfelt ballads
and shuffling singalongs became a fixture in the US charts in the late 1970s and
early 1980s. Growing up playing The Beatles songs and West Coast rock with high
school friends, he released a couple of singles with his band The Coachmen
before dropping out of university to become a session musician, playing on
records by Jackson Browne, Randy Newman and Joe Walsh. Fogelberg's breakthrough
as a solo artist came when Part Of The Plan became a small hit and propelled
second album Souvenirs (1974) into the ...