For Christmas Birthday Boy Buffett, Who Needs Record Sales..

[SunLover]

The article mentions Margaritaville properties, foods, apparel, RM, and his books. And yes, they have Buffett's age wrong.

From yahoo news:
For Christmas Birthday Boy Jimmy Buffett, Who Needs Record Sales To Be Worth $400 Million?

Jimmy Buffett was born on Christmas day, 65 years ago. Or, as he once put it in the liner notes for a holiday album he released back in 1996, he is “the Christmas war baby turned island boy born on the day W.C. Fields died.”

But when it comes to receiving, every day must feel like Christmas for the entrepreneurial singer, one of the world’s wealthiest musicians. The website Celebrity Net Worth has guesstimated his fortune at $400 million, which by their calculations puts him behind only Paul McCartney and Bono and ahead of Elton John and Mick Jagger.

Never mind that he hasn’t had a song in the Billboard pop Top 40 that was not a featured cameo on someone else’s single since 1979. His guest appearance on Alan Jackson’s country smash “It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere” nine years ago gave him a rare taste of post-1970s airplay. Otherwise, he hasn’t been able to get arrested at radio in decades. And he’s boo-hooing all the way to Margaritaville—which is, from all appearances, a multibillion dollar business.

Behind that booze-promulgated exterior is a sobering business acumen that’s made Buffett the King of Ancillary Income. Imagine the kind of Christmas-slash-birthday you’d be enjoying if you were the beneficiary of these assets:

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[Wildh2oskier]

Just read it before I came on here. Kind of disappointing but as he said "Don't try to describe it if you haven't seen it.". The author managed to miss that completely.

[fabduo]

It says 65 years ago he was born -he turned 66 this year

[Bicycle Bill]

Just read it before I came on here. Kind of disappointing but as he said "Don't try to describe it if you haven't seen it.". The author managed to miss that completely.

It says 65 years ago he was born -he turned 66 this year.

Well, consider the source — Yahoo News.  Decent enough on a regular basis, but from time to time they miss the mark so badly that they can make Fox News or Rupert Murdoch look good by comparison.  This was one of those times.

-"BB"-

[ParrotHead67]

Thanks for the article! The reporter obviously has never experienced what most of us have experienced as parrot heads. I know JB isn't a beach-bum anymore but I still see Jimmy through my beach-colored sunglasses and nobody is going to make me take them off.

[surfpirate]

Why the *news reporter bashing*?
Missing the birthday by one year and
missing the year that Margaritaville was on the charts aside ...

... the article was a respectful look
at Jimmy the entrepreneur, author,
businessman and performer.
And it was informative,
particularly for
the non-parrotheads out there.

[PeretHed66]

Why the *news reporter bashing*?
Missing the birthday by one year and
missing the year that Margaritaville was on the charts aside ...

... the article was a respectful look
at Jimmy the entrepreneur, author,
businessman and performer.
And it was informative,
particularly for
the non-parrotheads out there.

Yup.

[BGunn]

Guess I never thought of Buffett as a 1 or 2 hit wonder. According to the author he's an old rocker that's been touring for years and years based on '1 or 2 songs and a lifestyle'. Kinda of rough to see Jimmy's body of work summed up like that. He's certainly made millions on the lifestyle and marketing but I think he deserves more respect musically.

[conched]

Guess I never thought of Buffett as a 1 or 2 hit wonder. According to the author he's an old rocker that's been touring for years and years based on '1 or 2 songs and a lifestyle'. Kinda of rough to see Jimmy's body of work summed up like that. He's certainly made millions on the lifestyle and marketing but I think he deserves more respect musically.

Agreed!