- Australia is 200 years old; John participates in the celebration in Sydney. Just for this occasion, he wrote a new song – "Sing Australia".
- "Foxfire" is nominated for a Golden Globe.
- And a film again: "Higher Ground" was actually planned to be the pilot film to a TV series, but this remains to be the only sequel. Later that year, the album of the same name is released, the first one on John's own Windstar label.
- Our newsletters become thicker and thicker!!
- The USA contribution to the "Rose of Montreux" is "The Sound of Christmas".
- John is in Europe in the Spring – unfortunately not in Germany – planned concerts don't come together, since, so our information, all halls that came into question were already booked...
- Jochen and Birgit write a report called "Hamburg on John Denver's trail" about the concert in Nimwegen. This is going to be a series with many sequels!
- In the Summer, "Super Channel" (which doesn't even exist anymore…) shows several John Denver Shows from the early 70s.
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On August 12th, John and his second wife, Cassandra, get married in Aspen.
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John makes headlines, when the Soviet Space Agency offers him a flight to their space station MIR – for 10 Mill. $… - and he shows to be interested. Several reasons keep him from translating his plans into action – one reason is the fact that Cassandra is pregnant!
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