The Death of Kris Kristofferson

[Kirkhill]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kris-kristofferson-obit-1.7337803

Kris Kristofferson: Country music star dies aged 88

Singer described by Willie Nelson as the best songwriter in the world passed away peacefully at home

www.telegraph.co.uk

Born in 1936 to an Air Force major general, Kristofferson served as an army ranger who flew helicopters in the US Army during his own stint in the service.

He also studied literature at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar after finishing his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California.

Kristofferson later pivoted his career to music and headed to Nashville to pursue being a professional songwriter.

He went on to write standards such as Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down, which became a hit for Cash, For The Good Times, which became a number one for Ray Price, and Me And Bobby McGee, which was covered by Joplin.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Did not know he was a Ranger as well.

 

[dapaterson]

Ethan Hawke wrote a profile of him in Rolling Stone: Kris Kristofferson: The Last Outlaw Poet

 

[OldSolduer]

I loved his character in the Blade series. RIP Mr K.

 

[GK .Dundas]

A warrior bard.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Did not know he was a Ranger as well.

Let alone that he was in the military.

 

[GK .Dundas]

A warrior bard.

And the more I reflect about it , he very neatly fills the bill for a modern Renaissance man .