RIP Kris Kristofferson
Excellent songwriter, handsome guy, he lived to be 88.
Here he is with Johnny Cash performing a song Kristofferson wrote:
I especially like this short clip of an interview with Kristofferson in which he pays tribute to his friend Steve Goodman, who wrote “The City of New Orleans” and died young:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKh6ZqVKmN4
Wonderful love story with Rita Coolidge, she met him at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to Tennessee. Instead of continuing to his intended destination in Nashville, he got off in Memphis with her. The two married in 1973, had a child in 1974, and recorded several duet albums, which sold well.
He was an outspoken radical leftist.
And he was viciously abusive to Rita Coolidge.
But yeah, sure, he was an excellent songwriter and a handsome guy.
IrishOtter:
True, But if I’m not mistaken, he later got sober and gave up abuse as well. I think he and Coolidge ended up friendly in later life.