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How a chance career opportunity turned into an enduring friendship that ended too soon

When he wasn’t in the studio, on stage, or in the sand, Jimmy Buffett flew the world in style with a fleet of amazing planes.

Buffett made a fortune from the appeal of his easygoing vision by investing in lucrative businesses, many of them branded Margaritaville

With songs like “Margaritaville” and “Fins,” he became a folk hero to fans known as Parrot Heads. He also became a millionaire hundreds of times over.

Jimmy Buffett, musician, pilot, author, and sailor, passed away on September 1. In addition to building the Margaritaville brand, he owned and piloted several aircraft.

 

In 1996, the police in Jamaica mistook Buffett for a drug smuggler after he landed his seaplane with the singer Bono and others on board and opened fire on it.

Jimmy Buffett’s life evokes images of boozy chill-outs by the beach and a certain carefree calm, but in 1996 the singer’s seaplane came under a hail of…

The Gulf and Western singer, songwriter, and mogul has died at 76.

Jimmy Buffett, the singer, songwriter, author, sailor and entrepreneur whose roguish brand of island escapism on hits like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise” made him something of a latter-day folk hero, especially among his devoted following of so-called Parrot Heads, died on Friday. He was 76.