Editing Tim Buckley (section)

== Death ==
On June 28, 1975, Buckley completed a short tour with a show in [[Dallas]], playing to a sold-out crowd of 1,800 people.<ref name=HighFlyer/> He celebrated the end of the tour with a weekend of drinking with his band and friends. On the evening of June 29, he accompanied longtime friend Richard Keeling to his house. At some point, Keeling produced a bag of heroin,<ref name=TBBioLU/> some of which Buckley snorted.

Buckley's friends took him home and, seeing his inebriated state, his wife Judy laid him on the living-room floor and questioned his friends as to what had happened.<ref name=TBBioLU/> She moved Buckley into bed. When she checked on him later, she found that he was not breathing and had turned blue. Attempts by friends and [[paramedic]]s to revive him were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced [[dead on arrival]].<ref name=HighFlyer/>

The [[coroner]]'s report stated that Buckley died at 9:42&nbsp;p.m. on June 29, 1975, from "acute heroin/[[morphine]] and [[ethanol]] intoxication due to inhalation and ingestion of overdose".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Judith|last=Sims|author-link=Judith Sims|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-buckley-dead-at-28-19750814|title=Tim Buckley Dead at 28|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=August 14, 1975|access-date=December 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413041248/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tim-buckley-dead-at-28-94675/|archive-date=April 13, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Aftermath ===
Buckley's [[tour manager]], Bob Duffy, said Buckley's death was not expected, but "was like watching a movie, and that was its natural ending."<ref name=HighFlyer/>

Other friends saw his passing as predictable, if not inevitable. Beckett recalled how Buckley took chances with his life, including dangerous driving, drinking alcohol, taking pills and heroin.

Given the circumstances of his death, police charged Keeling with murder and [[drug dealing|distribution of heroin]].<ref name=NYTdeath>{{cite news |title=Suspect Arraigned in Death of Singer |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 9, 1975|url=http://www.timbuckley.net/articles/tbjuly2.htm |access-date=July 3, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080519225923/http://www.timbuckley.net/articles/tbjuly2.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=May 19, 2008}}</ref> At his hearing on August 14, 1975, Keeling pleaded guilty to [[involuntary manslaughter]]<ref name=NYTdeath/><ref>{{cite news |title=Stude Gets Probation in Death of Singer Buckley |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 9, 1976 |url=http://www.timbuckley.net/articles/tbstude.htm |access-date=June 3, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080518211030/http://www.timbuckley.net/articles/tbstude.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=May 18, 2008}}</ref> and, after failing to complete community service, was sentenced to 120 days in jail and four years' probation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Penal Aftermath of Tim Buckley's Death |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date= March 23, 1976 |url= http://www.timbuckley.net/articles/tbob.htm|access-date=June 6, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080519012510/http://www.timbuckley.net/articles/tbob.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date =May 19, 2008}}</ref>

Buckley died in debt, owning only a guitar and an [[amplifier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timbuckley.com/tim-buckley-chronicle-of-a-starsailor/|title=Tim Buckley: Chronicle of a Starsailor|website=Timbuckley.com|access-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref> About 200 friends and family attended his funeral at the Wilshire Funeral Home in Santa Monica, including manager [[Herb Cohen]] and [[Lee Underwood]]. His 8-year-old son, [[Jeff Buckley|Jeff]], had met his father only once, and was not invited to the funeral.<ref>{{cite news |last=Browne |first=David |title=The Unmade Star |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |via=Jeffbuckley.com |date=September 24, 1993 |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/words/features/nyt-unmadestar.html |access-date=April 30, 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062824/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/words/features/nyt-unmadestar.html |archive-date=May 9, 2008}}</ref> Jeff Buckley said not being invited to his father's funeral "gnawed" at him, and prompted him to pay his respects by performing "[[Goodbye and Hello (Tim Buckley album)|I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain]]" in 1991 at a memorial tribute to Buckley in [[Brooklyn]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Ray|last=Rogers|title=New Again: Jeff Buckley|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/new-again-jeff-buckley#_|magazine=[[Interview Magazine|Interview]]|date=May 28, 2013|access-date=February 10, 2015}}</ref>