Fogelberg had roots on UI campus
By Paul Wood
Tuesday December 18, 2007
URBANA – In the years before Dan Fogelberg became a major star with "Leader of the Band" and other hits, his own "band" usually meant the singer and his guitar or piano at the Red Herring Coffee House.
The Peoria native, who died Sunday at 56, was a University of Illinois student from 1969 to 1971. He admitted he didn't study much, but did have a good time playing folk music and drinking whiskey at the now-defunct Red Lion in Champaign.
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