Highlights from the career of legendary musician Jimmy Buffett
Buffett popularized beach bum soft rock and turned that celebration of loafing into a billion-dollar empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions.
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Singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffet is on March 26, 1975. Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died, Friday, Sept. 1.3/20
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Singer Jimmy Buffett has a bowl of stone crabs at a Florida Audubon Society fundraiser for the Endangered Species Fund in Miami, March 20, 1983.4/20
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Singer Jimmy Buffet performs barefooted with his band The Coral Reefers on the NBC "Today" television show summer concert series in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, on June 25, 2004.5/20
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New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Saturday, May 6, 2006.6/20
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Jimmy Buffett takes a break during a set of music at his Margaritaville Cafe in Key West, Fla in Feb. 12, 2009.7/20
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Jimmy Buffett performs at his sister's restaurant in Gulf Shores, Ala., on June 30, 2010.8/20
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Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band perform on the Acura Stage during the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the New Orleans Fairgrounds.9/20
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In this Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett performs before his fans on Duval Street in Key West, Fla.10/20
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Jimmy Buffett joins Allen Toussaint at Jazz Fest 2014 in New Orleans, La. Saturday, May 3, 2014.11/20
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Jimmy Buffett performs on the Acura Stage during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans Sunday, April 26, 2015.12/20
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Jimmy Buffett performs at the after party for the premiere of "Jurassic World" in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2015.13/20
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Jimmy Buffett performs at the Link Stryjewski Foundation Bal Masque at the Orpheum Theatre. Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016.14/20
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This July 29, 2016 file photo shows Jimmy Buffett performing on NBC's "Today" show in New York.15/20
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Singer Jimmy Buffett during a "Get Out To Vote" speech for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Monday Nov. 7, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla.16/20
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Jimmy Buffett, left, tries out a seat at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans on Monday, June 12, 2017.17/20
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Jimmy Buffett talks about the premiere of "Escape to Margaritaville" at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans on Monday, June 12, 2017.18/20
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Jimmy Buffett, center, members of the cast and production team are seen during the curtain call following the Broadway opening night of "Escape to Margaritaville" at the Marquis Theatre on Thursday, March 15, 2018, in New York.19/20
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Jimmy Buffett performs on the Acura Stage during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Sunday, May 5, 2019.20/20
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Jimmy Buffett thanks the capacity crowd at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater on Feb. 9 during a string of four shows in Key West, Fla.
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