‘The Official John Denver Celebration Concert’ inside scoop

An unforgettable outtake from the 1994 “Very Best of John Denver” Heartland Music compilation cover as well as the “Take Me Home: An Autobiography” shoot finds a blue denim and brown jacket-clad Denver strumming a National steel resonator guitar in the Great Outdoors. Photography by John Russell / Studio Van Dijken

Decades after the shocking demise of ubiquitous TV, film [e.g. trading barbs with cigar-chomping comedy icon George Burns in Oh, God!], and Hot 100 entertainer John Denver, fans can experience the beloved Colorado poet laureate onstage via video. Taking its cue from the innovative “Elvis: The Concert” — which coincidentally debuted the same year as Denver’s 1997 passing to commemorate…