Jeff Buckley is one of those special musical talents who prompts the purists to exchange a meaningful look, as if to say, “If you know, you know.” You could be forgiven for not knowing, though: his star burned brightly but ever so briefly between the release of his only completed studio album in 1994 and his death in 1997.
For a start, he was an otherworldly character whose birth and death both have mythical qualities. He was the son of the celebrated folk musician Tim Buckley, an absent father who died from a heroin overdose aged 28, while he himself accidentally drowned in the Mississippi river at the age of 30.
He once claimed it had taken him 27 years to create the album. Did he have another to equal it inside him? We will never know.
Perry’s figures are revealing: $1 million an episode for a show that lasted seven seasons and is still watched all over the world, but also 8,000 AA meetings, 30 years of therapy and $7 million spent fighting addiction – until, in 2023, a ketamine overdose killed him at the age of 54.
Before he died, Perry wrote a bestselling memoir in which he shared the prayer he’d made on his arrival in Hollywood: “God, you can do anything you want to me, just please make me famous.”
The press at the time were obsessed with discovering his girlfriends, or otherwise. Watching now his precocious stagecraft and musical prowess, it seems staggering that journalists were, as Michael later pointed out, “so busy trying to figure out if I was gay or not that they never asked, ‘How is a 22-year-old writing, producing and arranging these tracks all by himself?’” Damn. We would have learnt so much if they had.
All three, as we now know, had their wishes fulfilled. For all three, sadly, pulled off the perfect showman’s trick: leaving us wanting more.
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