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Anniversary of Jeff's Birthday 
Online Website Celebration 
November 17 
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"...and what do I want people to get from the music?
Whatever they want, you know...whatever you like."
- Jeff Buckley

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November 17th marks the anniversary of Jeff Buckley's 42nd birthday. We'd like to ask you to share with us the unique ways in which *you* celebrate Jeff and how you share the Golden Promise in your life, be it through poetry, music, art, attending tribute events, listening to your favorite Jeff CDs or anything in between. We'd love to hear about it and we may include your stories on this site. Send them to us at newsletter@jeffbuckley.com Join us in sharing with Jeff's fans around the world. Also, you can light a candle for Jeff at The Jeff Buckley Community. 

Tribute events are taking place in Chicago, Los Angeles, Texas and New York. We want to thank everyone for organizing, performing at and attending the celebrations around the world. We hope to have photos, music and/or video to share with you of these concerts. We already have our first video available of Arthur Autumn performing "Nightmares By The Sea" from the Los Angeles Tribute which took place Sat. Nov. 15th at Tangier. Chicago's UIC Radio has a tribute to Jeff on Monday from 12-4 PM CST. Listen online at http://uicradio. org/. 

JEFF INTERVIEW ON KROQ-FM RADIO:

On May 02, 1995, Jeff stepped into the KROQ-FM Radio Station in Los Angeles, California and talked with DJ Tami Heide. During the broadcast, Jeff performed several songs including his own unique rendition of the classic Doors song "Break On Through" ...  "Last Goodbye" , "Break On Through" and "So Real".

U2 CELEBRATES JEFF BUCKLEY:

On June 20, 1997, U2 had a guest appearance on KROQ-FM Radio with DJ "Jed The Fish". U2 took over the radio station for the afternoon and played some of their favorite songs. They played Jeff's "Hallelujah" and the band had some special remembrances of Jeff. We'd like to thank KROQ Radio for the use of these files and Gene Sandbloom, Jay Tiles, Dan Eliot & Tim Fraser for all of their assistance. 

           THE MAKING OF GRACE 

We have streaming video of "The Making of Grace". The full catalog of Jeff's videos are available online for viewing in Peyote Radio Theatre featuring "Grace" and "Sketches" EPK, Jeff's videos for "Grace", "So Real", "Last Goodbye" and "Everybody Here Wants You". Also, we have Jeff performing with Alim Qasimov both backstage and on stage performances as well as an interview with Phillip Cornet in Antwerp that was filmed for RTBF, Belgian Television in 1994. Additionally, we're still streaming the full video of "Forget Her"  from the Legacy Edition Grace release. 

JEFF BUCKLEY DOWNLOADS:
Additionally, we have some limited downloads available at this time. You can get a Jeff Buckley "Widget" , featuring Jeff's videos, music, ringtones and Bio. We've created a screen saver featuring the photos of Mikio Ariga. An archival presentation of flyers and artwork that Jeff created for some of his early performances. Just click on the image to make the artwork larger. A lot of you have written to us and asked for specific files and for a short time, we'll have them available again at the following links: The Sin-e banter out-takes, "Strawberry Street", the bonus track from the Grace Legacy Edition, exclusive to the Australian and Japan releases, The Jeff Buckley AIM Icon, Jeff's Guitar Lesson and Jeff's Book List. 

VIDEO TRIBUTES:

Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" performed by "Artists in Resonance" at the California A Capella Festival (CAF) 2007 show. Solo by Nathan Rossi

MUSIC TRIBUTES:
If you have written music inspired by Jeff Buckley, we'd love to hear it. Drop us a line at newsletter@jeffbuckley.com Below we are featuring two songs. One by Crystal Sunshine, "Sweet Goodbye" and "Easy Come, Easy Go" By Tom Crowley. Each musician shares with us what inspired them to write the songs ...

"Sweet Goodbye" By Crystal Sunshine
"I came across Jeff Buckley probably in 1994 I believe. I was just a teen and I remember being blown away and have been ever since. His voice and lyrics, his whole being has inspired me soo much. I'm still in mourning that he is not here with us. I had just gotten the "So Real CD: Songs from Jeff Buckley" and was listing to "Forget Her" for the first time (it was the first time I have ever heard that one song). I rushed to the piano, tape recorder on and this song just flowed out of me as if I was summoned by Jeff himself. I had to play back the tape recorder to write down what had come from my mouth of course, lol ... and, I made sure to put it on my new album as well. The CD came out Sep.1st 2008." You can see Crystal Sunshine perform Dec. 10th, 2008 at The Carousel Lounge in Austin, Texas. The CD "Nephilim Blood" is available at CD Baby and iTunes. You can contact Crystal Sunshine at www.myspace.com/crystalsunshinemusic 

"Easy Come, Easy Go" By Tom Crowley
I first heard Jeff about 10 years ago, at the beginning stages of my career. I was about to begin a 12 hour car ride when a friend of mine handed me the album "Grace". I was going thru a bit of a hard time, questioning my direction in life and my friend thought the music might be of service. I listened to the album from start to finish about 30 times... each time digging deeper into the depths of myself along with Jeff. If there was one thing I knew for sure it was that an artist such as Jeff painted songs of his life, with colors from his soul. Beautiful, painful, and true. I found the direction I was looking for. Much like Jeff's song "Grace", "Easy Come, Easy Go", I feel melodically takes you on a roller coaster ride of highs and lows .. such is life. The song is about the relationship between the earth and sun subtly conveying that the sun never really goes down... its the earth that turns away from the light. Symbolically, our material world that shy's away from a higher power. Thank you for your inspiration and happy birthday Jeff. You can contact Tom Crowley at: www.myspace.com/tomcrowley  // tomcrowleyband@hotmail.com  

POETRY
Poetry By: Kimberly D. Davis, Tina Lustig I , Tina Lustig II & Anthony Burt 

ART PRESENTATION
Jeff Buckley Portraits By Alain, Dauchot, Kasey Moran, Nick Swann, Tara Thelan & Danielle/ Dream Sister.

Portrait by Ken Meyer

Celebrate Jeff's birthday with The Golden Promise in mind.