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Like his father, Jeff Buckley died long before he reached his full potential. He enjoyed a meteoric rise, playing New York clubs like CBGB before landing a splashy Columbia Records deal. But ...
At a time in the 1990s when grunge music became popular, Jeff Buckley’s eclectic brand and distinctive voice was cut short when he drowned in Memphis at the tender age of 30. Much has been ...
The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad Pitt’s request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.
It becomes clear from the film that Buckley, who sang like Nina Simone crossed with Robert Plant crossed with a heavenly spirit, could have been a staggeringly huge star. When you envision the ...
Sundance: Amy Berg's documentary captures the transcendental nature of Jeff Buckley's voice and music while also offering space for those who knew him best to share their memories and grief.
The Fight Club star subsequently acted as executive producer on Amy Berg’s forthcoming Buckley documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last week.
For Amy Berg, it was when she discovered Jeff Buckley. A transformative experience listening to his 1994 studio album “Grace” prompted the filmmaker to spend years dreaming about the chance to ...
Jeff Buckley's only studio album, "Grace," turns 30 this month. NPR's Adrian Ma talks with Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos and musician Tony Bernardo about the album's enduring legacy.
It was hard for me to wrap my head around Jeff Buckley’s passing when I was younger. Not that I was even alive when he died, but learning about the accidental death of such a young and promising ...
For more than two decades, filmmakers chased the lightning-in-a-bottle story of Jeff Buckley, one of the most gifted and promising musicians of his generation, who drowned in a Memphis river in ...