Four singer-songwriters wrongfully maligned by the rockers back in the day

When you're in your teens you think you know it all.  I'm witnessing it now with my 15 year old son.  I was the same way, especially when it came to music.

I was a rocker.  I had no use for any of that sappy singer-songwriter stuff.  Or at least that's the public image I portrayed.  In the privacy of my bedroom it wasn't true at all.

I'm sure I wasn't alone in my secret enjoyment of artists who were maligned wrongly by the "cool kids".  Here's four of them.

Paul McCartney - The argument between who was better, Lennon or McCartney raged back then.  And there's no way I was siding with the wimpy Paul. 

David Gates and Bread - I bought they're greatest hits album and knew every word by heart but there was no way I was letting on to that embarrassing fact. 

John Denver - He looked so innocent.  This guy was a cocaine freak?  He hid it well behind his tender songs. 

Dan Fogelberg - I cry every time I hear "Same Old Lang Syne".