Essential is a series from Dallas Morning News critics spotlighting timeless works of art and culture. Essential listening: "Same Old Lang Syne," by Dan Fogelberg. On a chilly Christmas Eve in 1975, ...

Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne,” the worst Christmas song in the history of Christmas songs, landed on the Billboard Hot 100 about 40 years ago. Ever since, when it comes on the radio, usually ...

Holiday music is all around us, and let's face it, most of it's bad. Awful. But as Sam Anderson reminded us in this beautifully written essay in The New York Times, not all of it is. Amid the junk is ...

NEW YORK -- Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a mash note to Dan Fogelberg's early '80s soft rock hit, "Same Old Lang Syne." Despite its name, the song is about a Christmas Eve ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling ...

To Jill Greulich, it seems almost unimaginable that Dan Fogelberg would have turned 70 earlier this year. She thinks back to their youthful romance, wistfully memorialized in song years later, thanks ...

Good morning, troops. It's Friday, Dec. 22. As 2017 winds down, it's becoming apparent it was a good year for singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, the pride of old Woodruff High School in Peoria. This is ...

Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. By ...

Each Christmastime, Peoria cozies up to Dan Fogelberg. The feeling might be hard to explain outside folks from his hometown and long-time fans of the singer-songwriter. Both of those groups fondly ...

To Jill Greulich, it seems almost unimaginable that Dan Fogelberg would have turned 70 earlier this year. She thinks back to their youthful romance, wistfully memorialized in song years later, thanks ...