Almost heaven

"So kiss me and smile for me..."



UPDATE from the mailbag [the hatemail is better than the feature itself!]:

Dear Mark, I feel nothing but pity for you and your dead brain. If you could not see the goodness and the humanity in John Denver, you are truly to be pitied. Yes, John made mistakes! Have you never made a mistake? I am 85 years old and would love to beat you over the head with my walker. I love John Denver!

Google hits for John Denver: 30,100,000.
Google hits for Mark Desrosiers: 231,000
After you are dead for 8 years,you won't be remembered as is John Denver.Google hits for you will be zero.
Furthermore,John is not in Hades.He was too good a man,to end up there.
The peacemaker,environmentalist, humanitarian AND musical genius didn't even touch the water.He went straight to Heaven.

Of course, Mark DisRosenears or whatever his name is here, is among the many who disliked John Denver from the get go. Why? It wouldn't have mattered if John Denver would have changed his lyrics to the trashy sort, had his band screeching from the rafters and dressed in TED NUGENT WANNABE attire, John Denver had wings and they would have been seen under the flaming facade of what all the other "ROCK" stars would have worn and displayed to their wacky, uninformed fanatical, cotton mouthed, slitty eyed fans. [snip]
Mr. Derosierears, you can ride your heavy rock unicycle down to Hades and be greeted with the likes of those who would have preferred Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" knowing full well that you took the flight of stairs leading the opposite direction. For in judging a man such as John Denver not only in his former life, but his blessed new life as well, you may consider the fact that the "HIGHWAY TO HELL" is going to be a very hot and bumpy ride. ROTS O' RUCK Mr. "I have no taste in music". There. That is easier to spell.

Mr. Derosiers, apparently when you woke the morning you wrote the review of John Denver, your significant other didn't give you any, if you HAVE a significent other of which I very much doubt. Otherwise there's no reason for this vindictive,mean-spirited critique you've posted in Pop Matters.
I'm sure In a Gadda Da Vida/Welcome to my Nighmare etal will never be played at anyone's funeral, but Perhaps Love as played at television star's Jerry Orbach's. AC/DC et al may be played at a boozed drug infested wake but never at anyone's memorial to act as a memory of their loved one. Maybe a nighmare but never a good memory.

Fr Our beloved John Denver & his millions of fans,,here's ahug.!! And a baseball bat right across the bridge of your nose!!!! Slugger 2 from ME..No wonder U dont have any friends. Folks in John Denver land, lets sue this sad. sick-minded creep, who thinks he is "good". I pity his wife and children,if any. Show your self U Coward, stop hiding behind a fire wall. EVERY ONE , BOYCOTT mark desrosiers, IF that is his real name???} I sincerely hope U find peace some day in your awful miserable life. Answer my email you asshole.