Jeff Buckley’s Memphis home to become a “tribute” Airbnb
Jeff Buckley‘s former Memphis home is set to become a “tribute” Airbnb.
The late singer-songwriter’s Midtown cottage has been renovated to be listed on the home rental website, and possibly even for sale.
The house should be ready around Thanksgiving time, according to developers (via Commercial Appeal).
“I want this to be in homage to him, but not like a hipster’s Graceland,” said real estate agent and concert booker David Lorrison.
The roughly 900-square-foot house, two-bedroom home from 1920 was reportedly purchased for $143,800 (£107,595.27) this March by Goode Development.
“Nobody in Memphis was paying attention to the house,” added Lorrison, who noted that the home at 93 N. Rembert had been unoccupied for about a year.
“But when you look online, you see people are coming here from all over. They drive for miles to make videos of the house and trace Jeff’s steps in Memphis.”
The home is the latest musical pilgrimage site to be renovated into an Airbnb, after the home from American Football’s debut 1999 LP also now available to rent.
Fans of The Beatles can even now stay at one of the earliest venues the band played in.
2024 notably marks the 30th anniversary of Buckley’s only studio album, ‘Grace’. The musician passed away in 1997 at the age of 30 after accidentally drowning in the Wolf River in Tennessee.
Elsewhere, a new official Jeff Buckley biopic was confirmed to be in the works back in 2021, co-produced by the late singer’s mother.
Everybody Here Wants You – starring Reeve Carney (Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again) as Buckley – has support from the Buckley estate and promises to be “the only official dramatisation of Jeff’s story”.
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