By Stephen Thomas Erlewine, LA Times | Excerpt: Buffett showed no guilt for turning counterculture into a capitalist enterprise. In the late 1990s, when Margaritaville started to grow as a business, he said, “I’m not about to apologize for being a good businessman. Too many people in music have ruined their lives because they weren’t. I’m not a great singer, and I’m only a so-so guitar player … There’s never been any grand plan to this thing. I’m making it up as I go along … Just trying to work the system while maintaining my ’60s anarchic soul.”
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“Margaritaville” entered the National Recording Registry in 2023. When asked by Rolling Stone in 2019 how he’d like to be remembered, he replied, “‘He had a good time and made a lot of people happy’ would be good.”
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September 7, 2023| Music-Related Business| Barb Dye