The Short, Brilliant Life—and Lasting Legacy—of Jeff Buckley
If the only thing that Jeff Buckley did is his 1994 cover for UNICEN Cohen.Praise God“He still has a permanent spot in the history of music. It can be said that the blatant and sensory delivery of the song has become the final release, and is partially responsible for converting the secular hymn that was once in Cohen into a modern standard.
As it happens, Bakli did not leave us Which – which More more. He released only one album EP and One Studio, 1994’s beautyBefore drowning on the Mississippi channel in May 1997 at the age of thirty years. But even that limited chaos was sufficient to earn the singer and delegated songwriter who has grown only over the years. After more than a quarter of a century after his sudden death, Buckley is a legendary character and has a sad, beautiful and mysterious life story like his music.
From Socal to Sin-e
In some sense, Jeff Buckley was heading to the musical greatness. He was born on November 17, 1966, in Nahaim, California, and was the son of Marie Goybert, who played the role of piano and chilo, and Tim Bakli, and he is a distinguished jazz musician who released nine albums in his life and is now mentioned in the same icons as Johnny Mitchell and Van Morrison. But Jeff had no relationship with his famous father: He divorced his parents when he was young, and Jeff only met his old man once-in 1975, just months before Tim He died due to an overdose of heroin and luxury At the age of 28.
Musically, Jeff’s father, Ron Moraid, played a much larger role in the life of the young man. It was Misheid who brought Buckley to Lid Zeppelin Wall writingThe album that made Jeff decide at the age of 12 to become a musician. Bakli has been playing guitar since he was 5 years old, and after graduating from Luara Secondary School in Nahaim – the same school that his father and Join Stephanie (Stephanie was a student when Jeff was one of the elderly) – he studied in participation Institute of Musicians In Los Angeles. Pacqueli spent the late eighties playing in a variety of different music bands, and for a period of time, Rigi Ranchihyid’s pioneering artist supported.
Buckly moved to New York City in 1990 and caused a feeling the following year, when he performed in Saint -An warehouse In Brooklyn as part of a concert celebrating his late father’s music. “It was not my work; it was not my life,” He said Bakli From the display of tribute in an interview in 1994 with Traded stone. “But it bothered me that I did not go to his funeral, and that I was never able to tell him anything. I used this offer to pay my last respect.”
Amid continuous comparisons with the father who never knew him, Bakli pledged to follow his music. After a long time in Gods and monstersA rocky psychological band formed by the guitarist Captain Bennett Gary Lucas, Bakli began a performance in the center of New York City like the legendary on the eastern side SinAs he began building a sensation and eventually caught a major bid war.
“The only way to make it – anywhere – is to put everything from being in the thing that you can only provide”, ” He said Bakli New Jersey In 1993, after he signed with Colombia Records. “You have to know what is in yourself – all of your eccentric, all you do, the full flavor of yourand and your joy. What do you look? What do you feel? What makes it different from everyone?”
surprising beauty
Buckly achieved his first appearance in Colombia with 1993 Live in sin-eEP of four songs, he recorded only his voice and electric ghosts. The group opens with “Mogho“Which will become the main path in the first Buckley album, beautyIt was released the following year.
beauty Buckley’s multiveric singing and unique guitar style-one moment of hypnoty, shouted and loudly the next day-and it seems that nothing else of alternative rocks in the 1990s. It may be the closest comparison like Radiohead album 1995 Bends (It is logical, since Thom Yorkre scored highlighting LP.Fake plastic trees“Immediately after the bombing of his mind by seeing Bakli at a concert).
beauty It did not result in any big individual songs, although the painful, reckless “Goodbye to the past“The best 20 Billbord alternative charts. John Cal registration For the 1991 Cohen honoring album I like you. With the exception of Buckley, it took the matter in a different place, adding a lustful hair always with its presence in the original Cohen version.
“Whoever carefully listens to” Glory be to God “will discover that it is a song about sex, about love, about life on earth,” Black said once. “Glory be to God is not a tribute to a person who is worshiped, idol, or God, but Glory be to God from orgasm. It is a poem for life and love.”
In the following years, Buckley toured a large scale around the world and began preparing for his album in the second year. In late 1996 and early 1997, he and his band worked with producer Tom Verlin-a leader of the Technical Technical Television TV-on an album that was scheduled to be titled My love is drunk. By this point, Bakli moved to Memphis, where he performed individual vehicles throughout the spring of 1997. He played his last show there on May 26, just three days before his death.
Swimming swimming
On the evening of May 29, 1997, while waiting for his band to arrive in Memphis and rehearsals continued for the new album, Bakli decided to swim, while he was wearing completely, on the Wolf River channel, the Mississippi River. There was Buckley and Roadie Keith Foti there, and as He said Traded stoneThe singer warned, “You cannot swim in this water.” But Buckley was wandering anyway, as LEDTA love singing as he went. When Buckley was about 100 feet from the beach, a large boat traveled across the channel and created a giant butter. Foti took his eyes from the water to move his box, and when he looked up, Black – the victim of the pledge.
The divers searched the river to no avail. It was not yet nearly a week, on June 4, that the passengers aboard the body of the American Queen Riversfit monitored the body of Bacqui. Despite the rumors of drug use and Reports from Bakli Director The singer was “acting irregular” in his last days, Toxicology reports Not only the irrational drugs and effects of alcohol were found in the Pacquel system. And his death was sentenced to a cross.
There were plans at first to issue a copy of 10 tracks from My love is drunk Buckley and the band included with Verlaine. But after Buckley’s mother took responsibility for his property, Colombia was instead Drunk graphics,, A group of two tablets that combine Verlaine sessions with Demos Buckley that you recorded at home. The selective music critics praised Bakli and writing emotional songs. “The package makes it easy to mourn the artist just losing a journey of vast possibilities, but it also makes it easy to celebrate the achievements that he left behind,” Steve Hoshman Books to Los Angeles Times.
Black forever
For decades, many Buckley’s additional versions have brought many albums, such as 2001 Live to Olympia And 2019 Living in wetlands. Along the way, beauty Continue growth in place. Finally, the album went to gold in 2002 and platinum in 2016; Five years later, ranked 147th Traded stoneReforme list of 500 the greatest album in all ages.
Buckley also successfully enjoyed the graph after his death. In March 2008, after American Idol The contestant, Jason Castro, performed “Glory be to God” in the TV competition, a Buckley version of the song Cohen, who ascended to the top scheme of the digital song in Billboard. Similar thing happened in the United Kingdom, where X Factor Alexandra Burke Cover “Glory be to God” from the winner with a battle with Bakli in the December 2008 race for the desired nation Christmas number one. Unfortunately, Bakli had to settle on the runner -up.
Meanwhile, many peers praised the Buckley songs of the artist in the song, including Juliana Phililde (“Try not to think about it”), Amy Man (“Like anyone“), Denkan Chic (Decrease“), And Chris Cornell (bye bye“).
The unique Buckley story and a tragicly short profession that makes it a natural occasion for the big screen. 2012 movie Greetings from Tim BacleyStarring Penn Badgley in the role of Jeff Buckley, focusing on Jeff’s performance at the 1991 Buckley Tribe Tim party at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
A more comprehensive biography, Everyone here wants youHe was It was announced in 2021 With actor/music Carney (Terribleand Gucci HouseDriving in the lead. Unlike Greetings from Tim Bacleyand Everyone here wants youIt is produced by the mother of Bakli, Mary Jobert-Looks for the original songs of the late music. (The film has not been reported since this original announcement.) Guibert said that the project “will be the only official theater for Jeff’s story.”
But first, the fans will receive a documentary directed by Amy Berg It is not over, Jeff BakliThe theaters strike August 8. In a statement of its director (PdfBerg said that she has been trying to create Doc Buckley since she finished her first movie in 2006. “She contacted her every time she finished a movie, and politely fell.” Until the summer of 2019, my conversion was finally true! I can honestly say that the euphoria has not settled. “
It is the emotional Buckley voice, the intense poetic feeling, and the expressive guitar that kept people interested throughout these years. “My music is like a little dream of the soul,” He said Bakli opinion magazine In 1994, his voice may summarize better than anyone else. “Do you have ever before one of those memories that you think you remember a taste or a feeling of something … perhaps an object … but the feeling is so strange and impact that you cannot get it completely?
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A copy of this story was run in 2022; Updated for 2025.
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