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• Began playing guitar and writing songs in seventh grade.
• Wrote songs for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Four of his songs appeared on their 1970 album Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy.
• Performed live for dolphins in 1992 as part of an Earthtrust experiment to research dolphin intelligence.
• Married his second wife in a nudist ceremony.
• A longtime environmentalist and a member of conservation organizations such as Earthtrust.
• Inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk in 2007.
• Toured with Jim Messina (with whom he gained fame in the 1970s with such tunes as "House at Pooh Corner" and "Danny's Song") in 2005, and again in 2009.
• During a 2011 concert in Manila, where he shared the stage with Filipino pop singer Martin Nievera (a friend, and a fan, of Loggins) Loggins fought off a painful back ailment, which curtailed some subsequent tour activity.