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A live version of "I Know It's Over" appears on his 2007 album So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley. "I Know It's Over" and "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" also appear on his 2016 album You And I.
Morrissey named Grace (1976) as one of his favourite 13 albums of all time in 2010.
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Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 - May 29, 1997) was an American singer and guitarist who died at a young age, just like his father Tim Buckley. His unique voice, spanning four octaves, quickly launched him to semi-celebrity. After playing with experimental guitarist Gary Lucas in his band Gods and Monsters, he released his first album Grace in 1994. Initial sales were slow but the album quickly received critical acclaim and appreciation from other musicians (among them Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney). Just before recordings began for his second album which was to be called My Sweetheart The Drunk, Buckley drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis, Tennessee, aged 30.
After Buckley's death some of the demo recordings for his second album were released on Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk. Early session work recorded in February 1993 was officially released in 2016 and 2019, and several albums composed of live recordings have also been released, along with a DVD of a live performance in Chicago. Fun fact: before breaking through Jeff Buckley had worked for 6 years as a receptionist at Magic Hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley
- https://www.youtube.com/@jeffbuckleyVEVO
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Jeffrey Scott Buckley (raised as Scott Moorhead; November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley attracted a moderate following in the early 1990s performing at venues in East Village, Manhattan such as Sin-é. He signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Buckley toured extensively to promote Grace, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, he worked on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk, in New York City with the producer Tom Verlaine. In 1997, he resumed work after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, recording four-track demos and playing weekly solo shows in Memphis. On May 29, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, Buckley drowned while swimming in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Posthumous releases include a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for My Sweetheart the Drunk, and reissues of Grace and the Live at Sin-é EP. After Buckley's death, his critical standing grew, and he has been cited as an influence by singers such as Thom Yorke of Radiohead and Matt Bellamy of Muse. Rolling Stone included Grace in three of its lists of the 500 greatest albums, named Buckley's version of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" one of the 500 greatest songs, and included Grace in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2014, Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" was inducted into the American Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
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