Jimmy Buffett

Horatio Sanzo impersonated Buffett on SNL after the incident. Currently, they are on a joint-tour with the band Earth, Wind and Fire. Buffett was hired to sing for the Tyco CEO at his party in Sardinia, Italy. The local news showed a video of him singing at the extravagant Roman toga party. The group continues to tour in big and small venues worldwide. Jimmy now owns several restaurants in Jamaica, in Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Negril, where the "Jamaica Mistaica" incident took place. And as a new century turned, the band sold their entire recorded output to Rhino Records (after years with Columbia Records as well as their own label). This event was memorialized in a song by Buffett called "Jamaica Mistaica". Lead singers have changed from time to time (ranging from Bill Champlin to Jason Scheff), but the group still keeps active more than three-and-a-half decades after its founding.

No one was hurt although there were a few bullet holes in the plane. The episode put more emphasis on the death of Terry Kath than their entire career combined, and Cetera completely disowned the special and went so far as to not allow VH1 to use all the songs he composed for the band, even declining to be interviewed (although stock news footage of a Cetera interview does appear). Police suspected it was smuggling drugs. The show, however, was not without its difficulties. The plane, named the "Hemisphere Dancer", had been carrying Buffett, U2's Bono, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell. In 2002, the group (minus Cetera) had the opportunity to tell their story in an episode of VH1's Behind The Music. While in Jamaica a few years ago, Jimmy Buffett's plane was shot at by Jamaican police on January 16, 1996. concert in 1997, they teamed up with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to perform a James Pankow/Dwight Mikelson orchestral arrangement of Pankow's rock epic "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon".

He is a distant cousin to legendary investor Warren Buffett. During a L.A. Previously it could sometimes be seen on the ramp at Princess Juliana International Airport (IATA indentifier SXM) in nearby Sint Maarten while he was is in the area. In 1995, they attempted to merge their unique sound with Big Band music for their album Chicago: Night And Day (Big Band), which consisted of covers of songs originally recorded by Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Miller, and Duke Ellington (from whom the album mainly got its inspiration). That plane is currently parked next to his Margaritaville restaurant in Orlando, Florida. The band continued to be innovative in the decade of the 1990s, even though their popularity began to decline. A pilot, Jimmy Buffett owns several planes including a Grumman HU-16 Albatross. During 1989, they did a joint concert tour with The Beach Boys (who had years earlier sung back-up vocals for "Wishing You Were Here").

He is a regular visitor to the Caribbean island of Saint Barts and other islands where he gets inspiration for many of his songs and some of the characters in his books. Records, was unhappy with the finished result, and thus the album was never released officially, although in succeeding years bootleg recordings of the album have surfaced worldwide, including over the Internet. Selected tracks from the unreleased album have since been officially released on a compilation greatest hits CD box set. His latest book titled A Salty Piece of Land was released on November 30, 2004 and included a CD single of the same title. Their record company at the time, Warner Bros. Seuss. He also co-wrote two children's books, Jolly Mon and Trouble Dolls with his eldest daughter Savannah Jane Buffett. By the end of the decade, the group planned and recorded a concept album, Stone Of Sisyphus. The other five authors who have accomplished this are Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace and Dr. But the conflict between Peter Cetera's style of composing and those of the rest of the group caused Cetera to leave the band in 1985 for a solo career (he topped the charts with the "Karate Kid Part II" theme song "The Glory of Love" and a duet with Amy Grant, "Next Time I Fall (In Love)").

His book, A Pirate Looks At Fifty went straight to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller non-fiction list, making him the sixth author in that list's history to have reached #1 on both the fiction and non-fiction lists. The group also contributed to movie soundtracks, such as "Two Of A Kind", "Summer Lovers", and "Days Of Thunder". Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list. Chicago itself guested on a Paul Anka song, "Hold Me 'Til The Morning Comes", while the horn section made an appearance on the Bee Gees' album Spirits Having Flown. 1 best sellers. For example, Al Green guested on a bonus track on the Chicago VI CD, while The Bee Gees guested on a track off of "Hot Streets". Jimmy has written three No. From time to time, other artists contributed to Chicago recordings.

Buffett's writing has placed him in good company.
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. In 1988, they topped the charts yet again with the Diane Warren composed single, "Look Away".
. The following album, Chicago 17, became the biggest selling album of the band's history, with two more Top Ten singles, "You're The Inspiration" and "Hard Habit To Break". He makes millions of dollars a year between his restaurants and his tours. This second phase of the band's career lasted through the 1980s with a new producer, David Foster, and again topping the charts with "Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" (from Chicago 16).

Buffett owns the "Margaritaville" and "Cheeseburger In Paradise" restaurants. The release also marked a move somewhat away from the jazz-rock direction favored by Kath and towards more pop songs and ballads. pop albums chart for the first time in his three-decade career. Kath's death could have meant the end for the band, but instead the group stood strong and later that year recorded and released Hot Streets, their first album without Kath and Guercio and their first album with a title rather than a roman numeral (they would return to the old naming scheme immediately afterward, for the most part). Buffett topped the U.S. Then, singer/guitarist/group founder Terry Kath died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, delivering a devastating blow to the band. The album sold 238,600 copies in its first week of release according to Nielsen SoundScan. The year began with an acrimonius split with long-time manager Guercio.

Buffett released a new album called License to Chill on July 13, 2004. 1978 was a tragic and transitional year for the band. In 2003, he partnered with Alan Jackson for the number one country hit "It's Five O'clock Somewhere," his first number one spot on the country charts. That was the song which won the group their only Grammy award for Best Rock Performance by a duo or group in 1977. Two of the more unusual albums were "Christmas Island", a collection of holiday songs and "Parakeets", a collection of Buffett songs sung by children and containing "cleaned-up" lyrics (like "a cold root beer" instead of "a cold draft beer"). But for all their effort, none of their singles went to number one until the group's tenth album (Chicago X) in 1976, when Cetera's slow, exquisite ballad "If You Leave Me Now" went to the top of the charts. He released a series of albums during the following twenty years, primarily to his devoted audience, as well as branching into writing and merchandising of various kinds. That summer saw a very successful joint tour across America with the Beach Boys, with each act performing some of the other's material.

During the 1980s, Buffett made far more money off his tours than albums, and he became known as a popular concert draw. The next year's release, Chicago VIII featured the political allegory "Harry Truman" and the nostalgic "Old Days". Havana Daydreamin' appeared in 1976, followed by 1977's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, which featured the breakthrough hit song, Margaritaville. 1973's Chicago VI also topped the charts bouyed by hits "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" and "Just You and Me". Chicago VII, the band's double-disc 1974 release, featured the Cetera-composed "Wishing You Were Here" (sung by lead guitarist Terry Kath, with background vocals by The Beach Boys). Buffett's second album was A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, now acclaimed as his best though it achieved only moderate sales. Other successful albums and singles followed in each of the succeeding years. He then moved to Key West and began establishing the easy-going beach bum persona for which he is known. The group bounced back from this misstep in 1972 with their first single-disc release, Chicago V, a diverse set that reached number one on both the Billboard pop and jazz albums charts and yielded the radio hit "Saturday In the Park".

Buffett began his official musical career in Nashville during the late 1960s as a country artist, and recorded his first album, Down to Earth in 1970. The performances and sound quality were judged sub-par; in fact, one group member went on record to say that "the horn section sounded like kazoos". He continued playing during his college years at Auburn University and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1969. Later that year, he married his first wife, Margie Washichek, at Spring Hill College in Mobile. 1-4 (Chicago IV) (consisting of music from their first three albums). Buffett grew up in Mobile, Alabama, where he attended McGill-Toolen Catholic High School and first began playing guitar. Some fans say a low point of the group's early career came when they released a quadruple-album live set, At Carnegie Hall, Vols. Jimmy Buffett (born December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville." He has a rabid, but genial, cult following known as "Parrot Heads." They call the youngest members "Parakeets". With that, the pattern had been set: the band, ever prolific, recorded and released music at a rate of more than two LP discs per year (always titled with the band name and a Roman numeral) from their debut in 1969 through the 1970s.