My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

He said that he had no immediate plans to return to making music but was keeping his options open. His second band was another cover band The Coachmen who in 1967 released two singles written by Fogelberg on Ledger Records: "Maybe Time Will Let Me Forget" and "Don't Want To Lose Her. Prospect and Frye which is the location of the convenience store where Fogelberg ran into his old high school sweetheart one Christmas Eve---a chance encounter made famous in the song "Same Old Lang Syne.

He is best known for his 1980 hit "Longer" and his 1981 hit "Leader of the Band. Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg (August 13 1951 – December 16 2007) was an American singer-songwriter composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk pop rock classical jazz and bluegrass.