Get the latest gossip
Kris Kristofferson, Country Songwriting Legend and Celebrated Actor, Dies at 88
Kris Kristofferson, a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died. He was 88.
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died. With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks and counterculture songs influenced by Bob Dylan, he represented a new breed of country songwriters along with such peers as Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tom T. Hall. Kristofferson said in an interview in the magazine, Performing Songwriter that he was inspired to write the lyrics about a man and woman on the road together after watching the Frederico Fellini film La Strada.
Or read this on Billboard
