Jimmy Buffett has died at 76 years old. Jimmy Buffett - Wikipedia Also I have never saw him perform in concert.
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Sad news. 3 rock stars in 4 days. All artists we sold huge amounts albums for during their heydays. Jimmy Buffett has most of the top 20 albums and singles on iTunes today. Rightly so.
Very sad and surreal to have all three of them pass away in such a brief time span (especially considering how young Harwell was in comparison). I'm a fan of Buffett, Wright, and Smash Mouth alike (and have quite a few records by each), so it was a pretty depressing weekend. I'm sure I'll be listening to all three quite a bit this week.
Wright, of course, has a direct connection to A&M via both his first two solo albums and as the former songwriter and co-lead-vocalist for Spooky Tooth. While his only solo hits to crack the Top 40 ("Dream Weaver," "Love Is Alive," and "Really Wanna Know You" all hailed from his tenure at Warner Brothers, the last of them (and my favorite of the three) actually has an A&M connection, anyway, since it was co-written by the very underrated then-A&M artist Ali Thomson of "Take a Little Rhythm" fame:
I never got caught up in the Jimmy Buffet craze. I liked some of his songs (Come Monday is my favorite) but not enough to buy them.Though I have a couple of Jimmy Buffett singles around here ("Come Monday" was always a favorite), I was never quite caught up in the cult around him. We have a neighbor who does his exercising by riding his bike around the neighborhood and is ALWAYS listening to Jimmy Buffett while riding. And any time there's karaoke going on, you can count on him to get up and sing one of Jimmy's songs.
It still is quite a shock that the guy was as young as he was. Ironic that the closest I ever got to eating in a "Margaritaville" was on Maui in old Lahaina, but we ended up in Bubba Gump's instead.