A smith of easy-listening tunes whose '70s hits included the quasi-spiritual outdoors anthem "Rocky Mountain High" and pseudo-down-home numbers like "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Killed Sunday when the small plane he was piloting plunged into Monterey Bay off the California coast.
Passage: John Denver, 53
A smith of easy-listening tunes whose '70s hits included the quasi-spiritual outdoors anthem "Rocky Mountain High" and pseudo-down-home numbers like "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Killed Sunday when the small plane he was piloting plunged into Monterey Bay off the California coast.
