The 1980's
1980: The song Hello
1980: JB's song "Survive"
is used in the
1980: Jimmy is appointed chairman
of
1986?: JB buys a hotel (Auteur du
Rocher ) on St. Barts in the
1981: Coconut
Telegraph is released
1981: JB co-writes the song "Sugar Trade" which appears on the James Taylor album Dad Loves His Work
1982: Jimmy appeared on the soap opera All My Children.
1982: JB and the CRB record the song "I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme)" for the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
1982: Somewhere
Over China is released
1983?: Jimmy and Jane are separated
1983: One
Particular Harbor is released
1984: Riddles
In The Sand is released
1985: JB open's the first
Margaritaville store in
Key West
selling a line of
1985: "The Coconut Telegraph" fan newsletter debuts
1985: Live
by the Bay, with JB and the CRB is the
first video released for sale. The concert, recorded at Marine Stadium in Miami,
includes Timothy B. Schmidt (The Eagles) on bass guitar.
1985: During a JB concert in Cincinnati, Timothy B. Schmidt comes up with the term "Parrot Head" to describe fans of Buffett's music.
1985: JB's song Ragtop Day is used in the movie The Slugger's Wife
1985: Last
Mango In Paris is released
1985: JB's song "Turning Around" is used in the movie Summer Rental.
1985: His greatest hits
compilation Songs
You Know By Heart is released and
became his best selling album.
1985: Jimmy has a cameo role in the movie Repo Man.
1986: Jimmy sings "La Vie Dansante" for the special Doctor Ducks Super Secret All Purpose Sauce, a Michael Nesmith film.
1986?: Jimmy buy's his first
seaplane, Lady of the Waters, and flies
all over the
1986: Floridays
is released
1987: The first Margaritaville
Cafe opens on
1987: The song "Take
it Back"
is released as a single - written by JB for the Americas Cup challenge in
1988: Hot
Water is released which includes guest appearances
by James Taylor, Steve Winwood, the Neville Brothers, and Rita
Coolidge.
1988: A children's book called The
Jolly Mon,
written by JB and his daughter Savannah Jane is released.
1988: Jimmy writes and records the
song "Christmas in the Caribbean"
for Tennessee Christmas.
1989: Jimmy's first novel Tales
from Margaritaville : Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions
is released.
1989: Jimmy and Bill Murray invest in the Ft. Myers Miracles minor league baseball team.
1989: JB appeared in The Neville Brothers and Friends: Tell it Like it Is, a live concert video.
1989: Off
To See The Lizard is released
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