Linde Dennis

American singer-songwriter based in Nashville who had over 250 of his songs recorded. Rarely working with co-writers, he wrote both words and music for most of his songs. In 1994, Linde won BMIs "Top Writer Award" and received four awards as BMIs most-performed titles for that year. He earned 14 BMI "Million-Air" songs (a song played on the air one million times). He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love", and he also wrote ten top-5 U.S. country hits. He also wrote "Goodbye Earl", a gold single for the Dixie Chicks in 2000. In 2001, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Linde died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on 22 December 2006 at the age of 63. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less