Kris Kristofferson, the award-winning country singer and actor has died aged 88.
Yes, I was looking to see if anyone else had posted. Seen here in a photo my friend Jeff took of him:
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Sigh. Another fixture I thought would be around forever (illogically) gone.
A great actor. Rather than a chameleon, I sort of felt his roles were so well played because he basically played 80% himself and fine tuned the other 20% rather than cook up a new character from scratch.
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Agreed, I knew him more for acting than a singer/songwriter
Yes, I read this today. I guess 88 isn’t a bad age tho. I’ve always enjoyed his music and his acting.
But really tho, he was a folk singer, not really a country singer. Not that that matters, I suppose …
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RIP Kris Kristofferson.
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Great singer songwriter who made it to film as well. R.i.p
Lucky to have seen him play live in London. A legend.
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Sad news. Only recently did I finally watch the film Heaven’s Gate. A much better film than its reputation might suggest, and KK was brilliant in it.
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Should be Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door right about now. RIP
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A prolific, educated and intelligent man. Cool dude. RIP.
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Sad, saw the news late last night.
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Funnily enough, I watched Convoy on the Beeb about a couple of weeks back (yes, all of it) plus the Star is Born remake with Lady GaGa was on the same channel only last week and I was trying to contextualise the KK/Streisand version to my daughter afterwards…
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Obviously a man of many talents who he will be sadly missed by fans from both his films and ‘Outlaw Country’ music.
Rest peacefully “Rubber Duck”.
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Kris Kristofferson: Five (or maybe 10) of his best songs Kris Kristofferson: Five (or maybe 10) of his best songs - BBC News
Good choice,
ATB, J
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Similar thing from today’s Grauniad. His song ‘Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down’ is the reason for his name check in Nick Cave’s brilliant song ‘Frogs’
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He was a remarkable person. University athletics, Rhodes Scholar, MA Merton College, Oxford, US military helicopter pilot and then he became a singer, songwriter and actor.
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