‘Margaritaville’ Singing Legend Jimmy Buffett, Who Turned Beach-Bum Life into an Empire, Dies at 76

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died. He was 76.