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his college years at Auburn University and The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1969. After graduating from college, Buffett worked as a correspondent for Billboard magazine in Nashville, where he broke into the music business himself with first album, the folk rock Down to Earth, in 1970. Soon after, he moved to Key West, Florida, where he began to develop his laid back beach bum persona. Signing to ABC-Dunhill Records, Buffett achieved some notoriety with his second album, 1973's White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, but he wouldn't appear on the charts until 1974's "Come Monday," off the album Living and Dying in 3/4 Time. Buffet's greatest chart success would come in 1977 with the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, which spawned the Top Ten hit and Buffet's signature song, "Margaritaville." By the end of the decade, the album had transformed Buffet into a full-fledged pop star. By the beginning of the 80s, Buffet's album sales began to decline, but his live act was in full bloom as legions of fans celebrated the southern tropical lifestyle at concert performances throughout the United States.



Buffet had a comeback of sorts in the 90s, with his box set retrospective, Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads, became one of the best-selling box sets ever. His first new album in quite some time was the 1994 entry Fruitcakes, which became one of his fastest-selling records. It was followed in 1995 by Barometer Soup and Banana Wind in 1996. In 1997, Buffett collaborated with novelist Herman Wouk to create a short-lived musical based on Wouk's novel, Don't Stop the Carnival. Broadway showed little interest in the play, and it only ran for six weeks in Miami. He released the soundtrack for the musical in 1998. In 2000 Buffet and his Coral Reefer band played for President Clinton at the White House. Buffet continues to record and perform, remind fans that a little escapism is only a concert ticket away.