The esteemed singer-songwriter behind “Me and Bobby McGee” and dozens of other hits was also memorable on the big screen in ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ and ‘A Star Is Born.’

    • geogle
      link
      72 months ago

      Chris is still sailing his schooner around the Horn of Mexico

  • shoulderoforionOP
    link
    fedilink
    222 months ago

    the last time there was a slate of dozens of celebrities that all died in the same year like this was 2016, and we know what happened that november, so, it doesn’t look good for the fate of the united states, and the rest of the world. buy batteries, plant vegetables.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    17
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    He’s a poet, he’s a picker
    He’s a prophet, he’s a pusher
    He’s a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he’s stoned
    He’s a walkin’ contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
    Takin’ ev’ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

    The Pilgrim, Chapter 33

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    162 months ago

    Incredible talent. Not much of a singer, but a HELL of a songwriter.

    All my rowdy friends done rowdied on down.

  • @JesusSon
    link
    102 months ago

    There’s still a lot of wine and lonely girls In this best of all possible worlds

    • aasatru
      link
      fedilink
      22 months ago

      That policeman said Mr. Cool If you’re not drunk then you’re a fool I said if that’s against the law Tell me why I never saw A man locked in that jail of yours Who wasn’t just as lowdown poor as me

      Later on in live version’s he’d change the last line to “who wasn’t either black or as poor as me”.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
    link
    English
    92 months ago

    Hearing about this on a Sunday morning coming down seems appropriate

  • edric
    link
    fedilink
    82 months ago

    I know him most as Whistler in Blade. RIP

  • Flying Squid
    link
    72 months ago

    I’m sure he wouldn’t care for this, but I associate him most with the movie Millennium. I know it’s an objectively terrible movie, but I like it and I like him in it.

  • RuBisCO
    link
    fedilink
    52 months ago

    Who was the other famous old country singer who died recently? I want to say he even resembled Kristofferson a bit.