Tim Buckley

Timothy Charles Buckley III February 14 1947 June 29 1975 was an American musician He began his career based in folk rock but subsequently experimented with genres such as psychedelia jazz the avantgarde and funk paired with his unique fiveoctave vocal range His commercial peak came with the 1969 album Happy Sad reaching No 81 on the charts while his experimental 1970 album Starsailor went on to become a cult favorite The latter contained his best known song Song to the Siren Buckley died at the age of 28 from a heroin and morphine overdose leaving behind sons Taylor and Jeff