Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself.
"Wastin' away again in Margaritaville," went the chorus to his most famous song, which became an international singalong. But Buffett was actually an astute, ambitious, aggressive businessman.
Jimmy Buffett performs at the afterparty for the premiere of"Jurassic World" in Los Angeles, in 2015."Margaritaville" singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has died at age 76. But behind the laid-back exterior, Buffett was an admitted workaholic. He expanded into novels, nightclubs and many other ventures.
Buffett was chairman of Margaritaville Holdings based in Palm Beach, Florida. He had a restaurant and a casino in Vegas, a casino in Mississippi and a hotel in Pensacola Beach, Florida, but the exact scope of his empire was a secret. Margaritaville Holdings LLC didn't disclose its finances, and he usually declined interview requests.
Buffett could be more intense than his songs and stage persona suggested. He was injured in 2011 when he fell face-first off the stage while performing in Australia and struck his head, knocking him unconscious. He was released from the hospital the next day. Buffett was born on Christmas Day, 1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi. He once said he arrived in the Keys driving a 1946 Packard in about 1970. He found his musical niche during that decade with breezy, island-influenced party tunes. The tone was set with a popular song in 1973,"Why Don't We Get Drunk?"
"We were the social network before there was a social network on the Internet," Buffett told the Dallas Morning News in 2012."They had something in common; they shared things. They started dressing up because they were listening to the music. It was the common bond."
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