Posted on 09/29/2024 4:32:20 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Kris Kristofferson, who attained success as both a groundbreaking country music singer-songwriter and a Hollywood film and TV star, died Saturday at home in Maui, Hawaii. No cause of death was given, but he was described as passing away peacefully while surrounded by family. He was 88.
What a talented guy in some many areas. Not to a mention Soldier, instructor at West Point, and I believe a Rhodes Scholar.
What an unbelievable talent. Very sad. No idea and don’t care what his politics were.
He literally could’ve done anything in life. Military, academics, musician, writer, actor etc.
He chose music because that’s where the girls were. :)
Johnny Cash later recalled, “I didn’t really listen to them until one afternoon, he was flying a National Guard helicopter and he landed in my yard. I was taking a nap and June said, ‘Some fool has landed a helicopter in our yard. They used to come from the road. Now they’re coming from the sky!’ And I look up, and here comes Kris out of a helicopter with a beer in one hand and a tape in the other.”
At the end, if the first number starts with an 8... You’re doing pretty good. If you write 4 songs (”Me and Bobby McGee”, “For the Good Times”, “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, and “Help Me Make It Through the Night”),and they all hit number 1.. You’re doing even better.
Served in the military and flew helicopters... He left the military and his fist wife and children to pursue his music career... So likely not the best husband and dad in the world, but he had a talent for writing music that made him rich and famous. A Rhodes scholar... So he was athletic and smart. His intelligence was his gift, and likely also his curse .
88 is a pretty long life, and he obviously lived it to it’s fullest.
I was about to type “There goes the last of the Highwaymen”, but Willie Nelson is still alive!
...and Payback with Mel Gibson.
I’ll always see him as Abraham Whistler from the “Blade” trilogy.
I didn’t like his singing voice, but he wrote a bunch of great songs. “Sunday Morning Coming Down” may have been his best. I love the line, “so I put on my cleanest dirty shirt.” It’s obvious that he lived that song.
RIP Chris 💔
Lesser known and not particularly easy to find, but I’ve seen it a bunch of times. Great movie.
I got hammered!
He made up for that hag Streisand with Cheryl Ladd in “Millenium”.
Another dead communist.
In the documentary about the “supergroup” “The Highwaymen, they filmed a segment inside the recording studio. In that studio, each of the performers (including communist Kris) had his own cube, sort of like a “cube farm,” where they could stash their instruments and other personal effects.
On the back wall of Kris’s cube he’d hung posters of Che Guevara and Noam Chomsky.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a poster of V.I. Lenin.
Sort of like Carradine in “Kill Bill” except it took years instead of what, five steps?
YOU ARE CORRECT===RHODES SCHOLAR
I cannot REMEMBER-— who his room mate was.
YOU ARE CORRECT===RHODES SCHOLAR
I cannot REMEMBER-— who his room mate was.
MAYBE BILL CLINTON?????
Would not of been Clinton because Clinton 10 years younger or more than Christofferson is
R.I.P., and condolences to his family and friends.
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