Music TV Special/DVD Review: 'John Denver: The Wildlife Concert'
On June 18, 1995, two years before his untimely death in a plane crash off the California coast, John Denver made a rare concert appearance on what was then cable's Arts & Entertainment channel (now A&E). Supported by both a string quartet and a group of backup vocalists and musicians, Denver performed over 25 of his best-loved songs and ballads, as well as a cover of Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell's Darcy Farrow, which Denver often performed at his live concerts and recorded at least three times during his recording career. This concert and the companion two-CD album released by Sony Legacy on June 13, 1995 were titled John Denver: The Wildlife Concert because they were intended to raise awareness of one of Denver's many causes: wildlife and natural habitat preservation. Profits from sales of the album went to the Wildlife Conservation Society, a New York City-based organization that seeks to preserve over two million square miles of wild places around the glo...