Dream Brother: the Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: HarperEntertainment
- Publish date: 02/01/2001
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When he accidentally drowned in May 1997, Jeff Buckley was on the edge of pop stardom, with an acclaimed album under his belt and another one on the way. His live appearances had been hailed as revelatory and he was considered a gifted, melodic composer whose passion and talent brought dynamism to the singer-songwriter form. Eerily, his father, Tim Buckley, an innovative musician who had only just begun to receive commercial success, had also died suddenly -- from a drug overdose -- in 1975. The father and son had lived apart from each other, yet they shared an ineffable musical genius.
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Jeff Buckley was only 30 years old when he died, outliving his father's age at death by just two years. With the power of a novel, Dream Brother explores the lives of these two gifted musicians, drawing a remarkably clear picture of the parallel music eras (the '60s and the '90s) in which they worked and elucidating the forces that led to their tragic deaths.
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