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“It’s just about being alive. It’s about the voice carrying much more information than words do”: The power and intensity in Jeff Buckley’s greatest song

Jeff Buckley.

Anyone who has delved through the back catalogues of artists who died tragically young over the decades will be struck by the sad truth that most never lived to see how cherished their music would become.

Such was the case with Jeff Buckley, who released his only album Grace in August 1994 yet died three years later at the age of thirty, drowned while swimming in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi.

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