Rocky Mountain Highway

Rocky Mountain Highway offers a powerful personal journey with multi-platinum country star John Denver, featuring intimate stories and never-before-seen photographs. This memoir from Lowell Norman, a close friend and videographer of the late star, provides a rare and fascinating look inside Denver’s successful but turbulent life.

The award-winning country star, John Denver, was once described as a complicated man who wrote simple songs. In Rocky Mountain Highway, close friend and videographer Lowell Norman reveals rare stories and never-before-seen photos of a John Denver who is at turns familiar and shockingly unexpected. He recounts the emotional live performances and the challenges of shooting such a big star.

Norman describes in harrowing detail the frightening experience of being harassed by gun-wielding soldiers with Denver on his tours of Africa for The Hunger Project. He tells the riveting story of dangling from a helicopter with a video camera while the intrepid singer tried to swim with humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean. Rocky Mountain Highway is a celebration of a young man following the dreams of a talented artist who was misunderstood by many and gone before his time.