DEF: John Denver “Shanghai Breezes”
Roswell, New Mexico-born musician John Denver hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart fourteen times, most successfully with four number one singles in the mid-1970s. On this date in 1982, Denver’s final Top 40 single, “Shanghai Breezes,” climbed to a peak position of 31, where it would spend one week. Today, “Shanghai Breezes” by John Denver is the Daily Eighties Flashback.