Hi Dan: I am a prostate cancer survivor. I was diagnosed back in August 2004 and had successful robotic surgery in December 2004. All organ contained and I have an undetectable psa today. My prostate cancer was discovered by a moderately elevated psa test, DRE was negative. You are right on about getting those annual psa/DRE tests. It certainly saved my life. I've seen you a few times in concert in the 1970's with my girlfriend who loved your music. I even became a fan! I know what advanced PCa is and what the treatments and side effects can mean to you. I've researched many, many an hour before I eventually decided on the proper treatment/doctor for me. Although I'm married and have a family, it was a very
lonely and scary time and it is still very fresh in my mind. My thoughts are with you. I know that this disease will be beaten in OUR lifetimes. I wish you all the best and the good health that you deserve. ~ Bob Plescovich

Hi Dan, keep fighting . I'm sure you will be the winner!!..all the best ~ alan hk

Dear Dan and Jean, I am sending you both angel kisses and God's love and healing on this Friday before Easter.  I pray than Dan will be back on that stage (preferably on the west coast) or in the recording studio soon.  Your music continues to bring me joy and memories of 30 years of concerts and fun!  Love you from one of your beloved "Dan-Fans" ~ Cynthia in Tucson

Dan, I have been a fan for years and had just decided to go online and see if you were touring. I was saddened to hear about your current battle. In 1989 I lost my father to Prostate Cancer. I had traveled to see him in Arizona, when it seemed he was running out of time. When I was flying home, and having come to the realization that I had just seen my father for the last time, I decided it appropriate to write him a letter. As I started to search for the "Perfect End" to my letter, I was lost. Then the words came, and they came from you. "The Leader of the Band". My father received my letter the day before he died. We talked that evening and he told me how much the words, Your words, meant to him. I will forever be grateful to you for that. May you harness the power of love and inspiration that you have given all of us through the years, and win the battle of your life. You are in our souls and prayers. ~ Barry

Hey Dan & Family! Just wanted to write a quick e-mail to say that I hope you are winning the battle against cancer! I've always enjoyed your music and have been to at least 3 concerts; I live in St. Louis, Missouri . . . what can I say, we've always appreciated great rock music (especially yours).  Keeping you in our thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery; you deserve it! Happy Easter, Passover, Spring - whatever you and yours celebrate! ~ Jean Feuchtenbeiner

Dear Dan and family, You are in my thoughts and prayers....  I went online to see if there was news of your health this AM while I was listening to "The Innocent Age" - one of my favorite CDs....  Many memories came back, and I found this site for posting, so I'll share some of those memories. When I was a freshman in college at the U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign, I
heard your concert at the Assembly Hall.  I believe your father was in the audience that night, and I was incredibly moved when you sang "Leader of the Band".  My father was a band director for 35 years before retiring, and I spent many hours with him during H.S. at rehearsals.  He also taught me to play the piano and nurtured my love for music and singing.  He sang "Longer" for more weddings than I can recall! You and he also have another link - every year or so, he tells us of an abnormal PSA level.  Fortunately the biopsies have all come back OK, but he knows the importance of getting this checked.  My uncle was also diagnosed with prostate cancer, but is currently cancer free.  I hope and pray that your health is improving.  Thank you so much for all the joy that you have provided to so many through your music.  May that joy return to you 100-fold. ~ Carla

To Dan Fogelberg - You are forever in my thoughts and prayers.  Since 1975 you have been both a constant source of inspiration and comfort to me.  Each and every song you sing is a miracle and I can relate many experiences in my life, both good and bad, to your music.  Your words speak from my heart; your music from my lips and I cannot remember a time that I did not listen to your sweet music or when someone would ask, "who is your favorite singer?"  that I didn't respond, "Dan Fogelberg".  I had planned on attending your concert in PA when you canceled your tour and I have been anxious to hear that you are returning to the stage so that I can again experience the poetry and music that is Dan Fogelberg.  There are no words to express the gratitude that I feel for you being there with me through every important moment in my life...high school angst; my first love, my wedding, my children's birth, my divorce.  If love and devotion were medicine you would not need any doctors.   I wish you good health because in this life that and love is truly all that matters.  You are fortunate to have the love of many devoted fans, myself  included, so I pray that God brings you good health.  Thank you again, my friend, for the gift that is you.. Be well... Very sincerely yours ~ Linda Franco

Dan, My very sincere thanks for your wonderful music, and my continued best wishes and hopes as you fight your illness. At 35, I've only recently become a fan, but your music has touched me and stirred emotions like very few other artists. To quote a line from one of my favorite DF songs, I thank you for the music and your stories of the road. God bless and be well.
~ Bill Diamond, Mt Laurel, NJ

Dear Dan: I was so shocked and sad to hear about your illness.  I have been a fan of yours since 1974 when I came into the United States from the Philippines.  I have seen you in concert four time and I have all your albums/tapes/cd's and the video of one of your tours. Your songs are so beautiful and I enjoy listening to your music. We'll keep you in our prayers - stay strong - you can beat this! ~ Agnes Walker

Dear Dan, I just got on your site and read about your illness. I have been a fan of yours since the very beginning. Your music is a tremendous inspiration to me. I am so sorry to hear of what you are going through. My thoughts and prayers are with you and I hope in the near future I will see you on that concert stage once again.The last time I saw you was in Pittsburgh and Wheeling in the mid-90's and the shows were wonderful. Wishing you a full recovery!! ~ Holly M. Lisac-Kuhns, Weirton, WV

Just hang on - our prayers are with you daily - one of my music heroes during my high school years (1972 -1976 ) ~ Alan Van Heest

Hello Dan,  I just wanted to tell you that you are my most favorite musician in the entire world!!!  I listened to you when I was just 19 and have loved your music and been hooked since!!!! I am now 51 years old, and I love you and your music more than ever. You are the most gifted man, your way with words and your melodies just blow me away.   I didn't know you had cancer, but I am praying for you beginning now and will continue to pray for you. I read your letter that says you are doing better and I am so happy about that. I never got to see you in concert, and I deeply regret that, but I have all your music, and I just had to write and tell you, that you have left such a deep mark on my soul with your beautiful, unusual, music, and I will love you and your music forever. God bless you. ~ Debra from Oklahoma

Dan: Many, many years ago, when my band was booked by Blytham in Champaign-Urbana, you and I crossed the paths of many of the same people... I recall the hot bands in that area then were The One-Eyed Jacks, REO Speedwagon, The Finchley Boys, and mine, The Reel Blues. When Irv Azoff left for California, I wondered how well he would do... But, obviously, history has shown us he did very, very well! In my opinion, his BEST act was always YOU! I would hear you playing live at The Red Herring on campus radio, and your talent for lyrics and melody were astounding even then. Now, I hear you are battling cancer, and I just wanted to give you whatever measure of encouragement I could. Keep fighting, Dan. ~ Skip Huston

Never having written to a star in the entertainment field before, much less my favorite musician, I am at a loss for words.  I check your website often to see if there are any updates on you and your health. You and your music hold great memories for me, especially during my college years.  My wonderful husband planned a cross-country driving trip from Wisconsin to Arizona and back so that we would arrive in Denver the night of your concert at the Red Rocks.  What a night that was!  We will always remember how great the night, beautiful the weather and phenomenal the music was. My wish for you is strength and courage as you battle this awful disease.  May God be with you and your family now and always.  I hope to see someday that you are back performing concerts which touch many as they have touched me. In the love of Christ ~ Jody

Dear Dan, I first heard your music in the early 80's. I think I was initiated with your double album (LP version), The Innocent Age. Since then I have been an ardent fan. Just recently I scratched through my heaps of CD's and took them out to listen to again. Your CDs form the largest single artist in my collection. Then I started to think ... I should introduce some younger people to your music. Accordingly I gave samples of your music to a friend at work who has a love for music, in the hope that he too might learn to appreciate your gifts.

Listening again to The Innocent Age brought back a fond memory. In the early 80's I used to work for Kawasaki Motors SA (South Africa) and became friends with a co-worker. As it turned out she had just moved from Port Elizabeth (a coastal town in SA) to Johannesburg. More amazingly, she had moved in with her grandmother who lived about 5 houses away from where I lived (Johannesburg is the size of San Francisco). We became friends and used to travel to work together. I had copied your LP to tape and we would sing along on our way to work. One of my greatest memories is our rendition of "Only the Heart May Know" which you did with Emmylou Harris. I can't recall who the bass was and who the treble, but we always did it in true duet style!

So many of your songs are so dear to me and have such great significance, I cannot imagine a world without your beautiful voice and poetic lyrics. If I listed my favourite songs, this e-mail would turn into a discography. In the past few days, you have been constantly on my mind. It resulted in me surfing the net to see whether you had brought out any new CD's. I began surfing and found your website and then the Living Legacy and was truly shocked to hear of your fight with prostate cancer. It was hard to fight back the tears. Dan, my hopes and wishes are with you and your family and I sincerely wish you well and that you will recover from this illness. Best wishes ~ Dawn Wyngaard
> South Africa

Dear Dan: Your music has been an inspiration to me.  Your gift of words have always been what I admired most!  May The Spring Season be a rebirth of mind ,body and spirit!  I pray for your continued health.  Thank you for sharing your may gifts with your fans ~ Hilde A.Steinberg NJ

Dan, I don't pray much these days but every time I do, you're there. The best concert I ever saw was yours. You played in Louisville, KY. It was just you, a row of guitars and 2 pianos. You played a few songs on each instrument to a crowd of at least 30,000 but I felt like I was a guest in your home that night and you played just for me. I hope you're doing well and hope to see you again. My great-niece is 6 years old and I keep telling her that when you get back on tour, we'll be coming to see you. Thank you for sharing your gift. ~ Terri Barry

Hi Dan, I am a family physician in London, Ontario and wish you well with your current illness.  I am first and foremost a frustrated musician and a huge  fan of your music for many years including my "innocent ages".  I have never  written to a celebrity before, but really just wanted to say that I never did get to see you in concert, and of all my music favourites you are one of the few I never did get to see live.  I was planning on trying to see you on your solo tour but unfortunately you got ill.  I am in a garage band with some of my middle aged friends and we  will be doing one of your songs in your honour.   I always said that The Innocent Age double album would be the one album that I would pick to bring on a deserted Island, if I was only allowed to bring one. If you are fortunate enough to tour I will not miss it, but more importantly get well and enjoy your family and friends and be comforted knowing that there are  many usually quietly spoken fans, whose hearts you have touched forever with  your gift of music.  Thank-you for that!  And thank you also for your message about  early detection of Prostate Cancer on your website. In Canada we as physicians are still trying to convince our government to pay for this test, as it is one of the  few screening tests that is not funded by them.  Thanks again for the music. I will share it always with my family and friends and remember it with my acoustic guitar, late at night  on my porch. ~ Hugh Rooney, M.D.

To Dan and your family, I will keep you in my prayers.  I came to the website because I just heard one of your songs on the radio and decided to look you up. God bless you and hope that you will be making more beautiful music again. ~ Helen

Dear Dan, Just wanted you to know what your music  has meant in our lives.  My husband and I fell in love to your music.  We listened to your albums and cassettes back in the seventies.  Today as we traveled on a thirty minute trip we listened to you on our ipod.   Your songs never grow old.  They are just as good now as they were then.  We saw you long ago, at Red Rocks, an anniversary present.   This year we will celebrate 27 years of marriage.   I pray for healing and that you can continue writing and singing your beautiful songs. ~ C. and D. Fiechter

Hi Dan! I was really shocked and disappointed to hear of your illness, but am greatly relieved and happy to find out that your treatments, etc. are going so well!! I have to let you know that you've always been one of my very favorite artists and your music has been very muych a part of the "soundtrack" to my life. It's been a huge blessing to me! I never tire of listening to your work and always enjoy seeing what direction you're going with it at any give time. Hope you're doing well, and I have to admit, I hope to see you again on the concert stage. You're simply one of the best. God bless you and Jeanie. Sincerely ~ Steve Brees

Mr. Fogelberg,  I just wanted to express my thanks to you. It is because of your song "Leader of the Band" that one of my
greatest life memories is so engrained in me. I'm 29 years old, when I was a child my father would play the guitar and sing me to sleep at night and probably the most memorable song he would play was "Leader of the Band." As I have grown older the lyrics have come to hold a much deeper meaning. I thank you for writing the song that allowed that memory to take seed.  You and your family are in my prayers. I wish you the very best. Sincerely ~ Dustin DeFoore

Dan - Beginning in the late 70's, your music was an integral piece of the life my former husband and I shared.  Quite by a twist of silly fate, I  walked down the aisle to "Longer."  The church did not have an organ and the guitarist knew your song!  Following your concerts through  the states where we lived (NY, NJ, PA, CA) until 2000, when we separated you  were a common thread which held our lives and hearts together.  Your  musical prayers spoke to our souls - and although he and I are divorced we  remain friends and reminisce about the venues where we enjoyed you (the Greek in  CA was a personal favorite!).  June of 2002, I brought my daughter to her first concert - yours.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.   Our collective prayers are with you and your family today and always. ~ Kathryn  B., NY

Dear Dan, Just wanted you to know that you haven't dropped out of my thoughts and prayers -- "no news is good news",
but I know how persistent your cellular foe can be (lost my grandfather to it).  You've no idea how much your matrix-prayer set to music, "Icarus Ascending", has sustained me in MY dark hours. God bless! ~ Dean Carter, North Liberty, Iowa

Dan, How to add to what others have expressed so eloquently? Your music has been such a powerful influence in my life--in all the most important years, at the most vulnerable times--for over 30 years now. All I can hope is that the wonderful vibes you have given us for all these years are being returned to you tenfold and are somehow helping your healing process along. You have my warmest wishes for a complete recovery. Thank you for sharing your beautiful music with us over the years. Peace and love ~ Sue Deschene

Dear Dan and Jean~~~"Everything the Power does, it does in a circle" ~~~Lakota proverb~~~ We are blessed knowing that you are still with us.  With the coming Spring, hoping to hear new melodies filled with your spirit.  Love and peace ~ Judi C., Rochester, NY

Dan, I've been thinking about you alot lately and hope that you are staying healthy and feeling God's presence through this experience.  I've been inspired by your music for years and can listen to an old song and feel new on the inside.  What a gift that you have given to us all.  Your letter to your fans is a continual inspiration and the call to help fight this disease is in order.  Thank you for speaking to men about this issue so that they will go through early screening.  God bless you today and all days! ~ Pam

Dear Dan, You are in my thoughts and prayers as you continue facing the challenges before you. I long to hear the magic of your music from you on stage once more. We need your inspiration and talent in our world today. I realize that may be a lot to hope for, but I do believe in Miracles !!! I will treasure all of your albums always, every melody and each lyric -- all full of heart and soul. All the best to you and your Family. Warm regards most sincerely ~ Mary Anne Jeffrey, XXOO

Dear Dan: I'm praying for you and Jean for continued healing, strength, and a full and complete recovery, as well as renewed hope, encouragement, and peace in your hearts, minds and spirits. I was so glad to hear that the cancer had been pretty much eliminated, and that you described it as being "negligible": what a blessing for your appreciators and supporters (like me) to hear!
 
In 1981, in the Summer after graduating from UCLA with a music composition degree, I had the privilege of singing backing vocals with the UCLA Madrigals on your song "Ghosts", from The Innocent Age. It was such a thrill for me to actually perform (albeit with a group of 10-15 other singers) on a professional recording with a well-known and respected artist. I do remember being pretty nervous, and a bit warm (as were some of the other vocalists); one of the staff at the studio (in Hollywood, CA) fetched some glasses of cool water for several of us, which we were grateful for. I was so nervous, though, that I distinctly remember knocking over my glass of water onto the studio floor as I was fumbling to get into position before a take. I don't think the sound of the glass being knocked over made onto the final cut, but just in case it did, I apologize sincerely! (I hope the statute of limitations has run out, too, in case I damaged the studio floor! ) Thank you for being such a profound and lasting influence on my own songwriting. The studio experience I had with "Ghosts" was actually the first introduction I had to your music, and I've purchased about every album and CD of yours since (including  Innocent Age and the ones which preceded it). Both your lyrics and music have inspired and pushed me to go deeper and to treasure the process of actually crafting a song: thanks for being a consummate craftsman. I caught a couple of your live performances here in the Portland, OR area in the 1990's, as well, which were absolutely superb. After the second performance, some friends and I waited backstage to meet you, and had the blessing and delight in meeting and talking with you briefly. Thank you for your graciousness and warmth as you greeting me and the others who were there to visit with you: it meant a lot to us that you'd take the time after a show to chat, even though you must've been tired and anxious to get some rest. Thanks again, Dan, for your beautiful songs, and inspiration through the years. I'll continue to pray for you and Jean in the days ahead. Sincerely and with great appreciation ~ Bruce Wickersheim, Gresham, OR

Dan: I've just recently become able to spend personal time at the computer, and have found your website.  Since there is no recent update on your battle, I hope that it means that you are well and are spending the time doing what you love.  I do want to share with you the impact that you have had in my life.  I first saw you in person when I was a sophomore in college (1975).  I still remember to this day, you on stage with two guitars, a banjo, and a grand piano.  While your performance was mostly  your own work, you did a version of a Beatles tune, "Here, There, and Everywhere".  I have to say that your performance of this song made such an impression on me, I remember it still.  For anyone to be able to "out do" the Beatles with their own song speaks volumes.  I have seen you since then every opportunity I have had and must say that your music has been a huge part of my life.  I still smile everytime I play one of your songs.  It only seems fair that with all the pleasure you have provided to millions, your fight should be won against the cancer, and you will have the opportunity to do all the things that you love. Keep us posted and God Bless.~ Holly Ziegenhardt

Dan: I sincerely hope that this finds you in good spirits and in improving health. I can't adequately relate what your music and lyrics have meant to me all these years. So many of your sons touch me deeply. And though I've heard it thousands of times, "The Reach" still makes me stop whatever I am doing and listen and I swear I can smell the salt and feel the spray. I was so happy when my wife and I were able to see you a few years ago at Westbury Music Fair. To me, it was a most extraordinary evening. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Godspeed! ~ Zeke

Dan ~ as you know life is short and you have given much enjoyment with your  talent of song. The place you sing from, is healing, uplifting, and comes from  love. Thank you for the love, cherish every minute, enjoy every moment. With  prayers of many,  the faith that, love conquers all, will give you  strength, feel the love. It is your time to feel the love back. God is love and  he will carry you through. Remember when you feel weak, the prayer of love will  give you the strength you need. Thoughts to you, Dan. ~ Dan K.