Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band

Background information
Birth name	Don Glen Vliet
Born	January 15, 1941
Born place	Glendale, California, U.S.
Died	December 17, 2010
Death place	Arcata, California, U.S.
Genre(s)	Experimental Rock Blues Blues Rock Avant-garde Psychedelic Rock Progressive Rock
Years active	1964—1982
Label(s)	Epic Records Virgin Records Atlantic Records Reprise Records Mercury Records A&M Records Blue Thumb Records
Associated acts	The Tubes Frank Zappa The Mothers of Invention Ry Cooder Zoot Horn Rollo Rockette Morton John French Jack Nitzsche Gary Lucas Moris Tepper

Jeff Buckley Movie Biopic Still Going Ahead

April 11, 2011

A music biopic about late singer Jeff Buckley is still going ahead, it has been reported.

The as-yet-untitled film will tell the story of Buckley's life. The singer drowned in 1997 in Memphis aged 30.

'Welcome To The Rileys' director Jake Scott will direct the Ryan Jaffe script, best known for the 2008 comedy The Rocker, reports Deadline.

127 Hours star James Franco and James Marsden have been linked to play the lead role.

Also Twilight star Robert Pattinson a keen music fan is said to be "obsessed" with securing the role.

The as-yet-untitled biopic is set to begin production by the end of the year.

(by Holly Frith)

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