Jimmy Buffett. THR. Pitchfork.
Thing I did not know: Mr. Buffett and Jerry Jeff Walker were buddies.
…
The Margaritaville Store on Amazon, just in case you want your own frozen concoction maker. Frankly, $350 seems steep.
It looks like the nearest Margaritaville restaurant to me is in San Antonio. But there is one in Tulsa, Mike.
IMDB. That was the bad “Hawaii Five-0”. He was also in “Repo Man” (!!!!).
…
Mr. Buffett was also an accomplished author; he was one of only six writers, along with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Styron, to top both The Times’s fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. By the time he wrote “Tales From Margaritaville” (1989), the first of his three No. 1 best sellers, he had abandoned the hedonistic lifestyle he once embraced.
“I could wind up like a lot of my friends did, burned out or dead, or redirect the energy,” he told The Washington Post in 1989. “I’m not old, but I’m getting older. That period of my life is over. It was fun — all that hard drinking, hard drugging. No apologies.”
“I still have a very happy life,” he went on. “I just don’t do the things I used to do.”
…
An avid pilot, Mr. Buffett owned several aircraft and often flew himself to his shows. In 1994, he crashed one of his airplanes in waters near Nantucket, Mass., while taking off. He survived the accident, swimming to safety with only minor injuries.
In 1996, another of his planes, Hemisphere Dancer, was shot at by the Jamaican police, who suspected the craft was being used to smuggle marijuana. Onboard the airplane, which sustained little damage, were Bono of U2; Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records; and Mr. Buffett’s wife and two daughters. The Jamaican authorities later admitted that the incident was a case of mistaken identity, inspiring Mr. Buffett to write the song “Jamaica Mistaica,” a droll sendup of the affair.
I’ve never been a Parrot Head, but I did own a copy of “Margaritaville” on a 45 RPM single. (Kids, ask your parents, etc.) I may have a rare (for me) margarita tonight in his honor.
I never was a huge fan of his either. But I respected him for the very many people that he drew to his fan base. My wife’s niece was a confirmed “Parrot Head.” I did like a couple of his biggest hits, Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise the best ones.
I am with my wife and just said to her, ” He was 76 years old.” We spoke about how it used to be pretty old, but now it seems like he was shortchanged. Not only because I am 63, and don’t really feel old-old, but also because people are actually living to be about a decade or so.
I never knew about the airplane incident where his family and Bono and Mr. Blackwell were endangered by a mistake. Thankfully no one was killed.