"Technically, he was the best singer that appeared, I'm not being too liberal about this if I say, in two decades. I started to play Grace constantly, and the more I listened to the album, the more I heard – the more I appreciated of Jeff, and Jeff's talents, and Jeff's total ability, to which he was just a wizard; and it was close to being my favorite album of the decade. We (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant) actually made a point of going to hear him play and sing, and it was absolutely scary. One of the things is a little frightening was that I was convinced that he probably did things in tunings, and he didn't. He was doing things in standard tuning. I thought, oh gee, he really is clever, isn't he? Jeff Buckley was one of the greatest losses of all."
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– Guitarist from //solo from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
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Jeff Buckley
(November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), also known as "Scotty Moorhead", was an American singer-songwriter.
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