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‘Emotions? They’re no big thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music
As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA fires
His 2020 diagnosis and subsequent treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma – or, in Bridges words, “some real health issues” – is mentioned only in passing, as the catalyst for him to release more music: “Hey,” he reasons, “if you’ve got some stuff that you want to share, now’s the time, man!” I tell him how despite it all he seems remarkably chipper, and he smiles. Shall I give you a little history?” He launches into a story that involves the musicians Keefus Ciancia and T Bone Burnett, a Squarespace advertisement for the Super Bowl, the 1975 comedy Hearts of the West, the New Age music charts, and a single cassette tape of some tunes Bridges had set down with some old high school buddies, labelled “July 1978”. One of Bridges’ earliest memories involves the Broadway composer Meredith Willson visiting the family home to try to persuade his father to take the lead role in The Music Man.
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