The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad Pitt’s request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.
The Fight Club star subsequently acted as executive producer on Amy Berg’s forthcoming Buckley documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last week.
“We’re going to dye your hair, put [on] brown contact lenses... and Jeff’s voice is going to come out?” Buckley's mom recalled once asking Pitt Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPL ...
Below we take a closer look into some of the exclusive stories and reflections from artists, friends, and family who knew and collaborated with him, as featured in 6 Music's Jeff Buckley Forever.
At a time in the 1990s when grunge music became popular, Jeff Buckley’s eclectic brand and distinctive voice was cut short when he drowned in Memphis at the tender age of 30. Much has been ...
By Tyler Jenke Brad Pitt had dreams of portraying Jeff Buckley on the silver screen, the late musician’s mother has revealed. Buckley, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 30, was the focus of ...
But Jeff Buckley had a voice that was so breathtaking, so ethereally soaring, so reaching for the heavens in its virtuosity that it’s as if he’d been given a different instrument from everyone ...
But it also adds to the feeling that, like many music docs sanctioned by family members controlling ... folk rocker Tim Buckley, who had left Guilbert when Jeff was 6 months old.