Photo: The late, great Jimmy Buffett | By Lee Cowan, CBS Sunday Morning | For all the glories of the season as we bid farewell to 2023, there are a lot of tears, too. Human suffering around the world – from Israel, to Gaza, to Ukraine and beyond – will sadly be how we start 2024 as well.
But we find hope in those who left us comfort in the best way they knew how – some with song, like Burt Bacharach, whom we lost at 94. “Why are these songs rediscovered and why are people still singing them?” he said in 2002. “Because, I guess, they have durability. They have class. They have some sophistication.
He even made cloudy skies seem a little less gray.
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Other losses include Jimmy Buffett, The Smothers Brothers, David Crosby, Harry Belafonte, Tina Turner, Lisa Marie Presley, songwriters Barrett Strong and Cynthia Weil, and many more.
Story produced by Young Kim. Editor: Steven Tyler.
First published on December 31, 2023 / 9:57 AM EST
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Photo: Jimmy Buffet | from his Facebook page