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12/18/2007: "Golden Voice Silenced"
It was with great sadness that the Home Office staff learned yesterday of the death of singer Dan Fogelberg. Fogelberg, 56, died Sunday morning of prostate cancer.
I can remember several years ago when he announced via his website that he had contracted the disease. Although far advanced at the time, he remained optimistic that he would beat it and be on the road soon. Sadly, this did not come to pass.
For those of us who came of age in the '70s, Fogelberg was part of the soundtrack of our lives. Along with contemporaries like James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett and J. D. Souther, Fogelberg helped shape the "soft rock" sound. His gentle voice and thoughtful lyrics made for classic music, and his collaboration with flutist Tim Weisberg, "Twin Sons Of Different Mothers", remains one of my all-time favorite albums.
They say that if you dodge all the other bullets that want to kill you, eventually it will be prostate cancer that'll get you. It's God's own Langolier. But it's one of the slowest moving and treatable forms of cancer, if you just find it in time. Men over 50 should be tested once a year - earlier if there's a history in the family. Let this be a lesson ... make the time to take the test.
