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Jeff Buckley's drowning in 1997 was proclaimed a tragedy, not only because the 30-year-old singer-songwriter was perched on the cusp of stardom but also because his death so eerily mirrored the premature demise of his father, folk-rock icon Tim Buckley. In Dream Brother , music critic David Browne offers an incisive portrait of the ill-fated father and son, examining their deaths and their short, though accomplished, careers. Browne's keen reporting and strong sense of the complex relationship between Jeff and Tim Buckley create a gripping account of a young artist hurtling toward his own destruction and a lyrical story of two lives adrift on the same churning river. Too discerning to simply attribute Jeff's death to some otherworldly, shared destiny with his father -- who died in 1975 at 28 -- the author instead paints a compelling picture of two valuable artists who never should have left the world so early. Dream Brother avoids dwelling on the similarities between father and son, but its focus on their individual paths makes the coincidences all the more haunting. Despite looking and sounding uncannily like a man who came a generation earlier, Jeff Buckley did not embrace his
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- Author
- David Browne, David Browne
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780380806249
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Music
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (1,202 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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