Tim
Buckley -- A Chronology, 1990-1999 By
Robert Niemi | | Dream
Letter, a double live album of the 1968 Queen Elizabeth Hall concert in London
is released to critical acclaim. |
| | April
26: Island
Records producer Hal Willner organizes Greetings From Tim Buckley, a tribute
concert. Held at the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn Heights,
NY, the show features Anthony Coleman (keyboards), Sharon Freeman (French horn
and piano), Hank Roberts (cello), guitarists Gary Lucas, Robert Quine, Barry Reynolds,
G.E. Smith, and Elliot Sharp.
Other performers include Richard Hell, Syd Straw, Shelley Hirsch, Julia Heyward,
and Cheryl Hardwick. The
show also provides Tim's 24-year-old singer/musician son, Jeff, with his first
important public exposure; Scott
Isler publishes Hello and Goodbye: The Life and Death of Tim Buckley in
the July issue of Musician magazine. |
| | | Morning
Glory CD is released in the UK, consisting of seven tracks culled from the
BBC performances taped in 1968 and 1974. |
| | Release
of second and third CDs of previously unreleased material:
(1)
Live at the Troubadour, 1969 by Manifesto Records
(2) Return of
the Starsailor [a bootleg of previously unissued live recordings, 1967-75,
released in the UK only]; Martin Aston publishes Tim Buckley: The High Flyer,
a biographical portrait of Buckley in the July edition of MOJO magazine
[UK]. September
11: Release of Honeyman, a fourth CD of previously unreleased material
culled from the tape of a live radio broadcast on New York's WLIR, November 27,
1973 October:
KKUP FM, Cupertino, CA, broadcasts a live performance by The Tim Buckley Tribute
Band called Tim Buckley: Too Much Talent, Too Little Time; A Tim Buckley
Home Page - created by Carol Mariconda and subsequently maintained by John
Walker after February 1996 - appears on the Internet.
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| | A
Tim Buckley Home Page is replaced by The Tim Buckley Archives (maintained
by Suzanne Bodoin) on the Internet. May:
Paul Barrera self-publishes Once He Was: The Words and Music of Tim Buckley
(Andover, Hampshire, UK: Agenda Ltd.). Thursday,
May 29: In Memphis to record his 2nd studio album, Jeff Buckley, 30, drowns
while swimming in a Memphis marina near Mud Island; his body is recovered from
the Mississippi River six days later, on Wednesday, June 4th; his accidental death
comes exactly one month shy of 22 years after the death of his father. |
| | Once
I Was, a re-titled re-release of the UK Morning Glory CD (1994) comes
out in the United States |
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