Word: planes
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...died in a setting straight out of his music, soaring over the mountains, sea and sky before his brand-new experimental plane crashed Sunday in picturesque Monterey...
Peter, Paul and Mary made a hit of Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in 1969, and yesterday, member Mary Travers mourned him as man who offered an alternative to angry rock and helped bind the wounds of tumultuous times...
Denver's single-engine Y-shaped plane crashed Sunday afternoon in the choppy waters just offshore. His body was badly mangled, and his identity was confirmed yesterday with fingerprints sent from Colorado...
JOHN DENVER is dead at 53 after his single-engined plane plummeted into the Pacific Ocean near Salinas, California on Sunday. The cause of the crash, so far, is a mystery. But the tragic demise of a one-of-a-kind musician begs a semi-serious cultural question: Why was John Denver never revived by retro-chic...
...then Denver was never really hip. The multimillion-selling career that began with his penning of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for Peter, Paul and Mary and crested with "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was never the messianic scamper of a rock star. His fans were many but silent; Denver was a star in the way that "Walker, Texas Ranger" is a top-20 hit these days: through the power of the uncool masses...