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Fans are remembering Jimmy Buffett’s best moments following the music legend’s death aged 76 on 1 September.

The two-time Grammy nominee was previously hospitalised in May to ‘address issues that needed immediate attention’.

A statement read that the ‘Margaritaville’ singer passed away while ‘surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs’, but no cause of death was revealed.

“He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many”, the statement added.

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00:00 I go, "Thanks for doing the bit."
00:01 And you go, "Yeah, well, I sang 'Margaritaville'
00:03 for the first time on 'The Tonight Show'
00:05 with Johnny Carson." -That's right.
00:07 Yeah, 41 years ago, your staff looked --
00:10 -41 years. -Oh!
00:11 -Oh! -I have a photo of it.
00:14 -Oh, my God.
00:15 -Here's a picture of you and Johnny right there.
00:18 [ Laughter ]
00:19 -Oh, that mustache had -- No wonder it went.
00:21 -Yeah, look at that mustache.
00:23 I think it looked like a stud. Come on, bud.
00:25 -That's a little porn-looking mustache.
00:26 -Whoa, no. -The same thing happened
00:28 in the road in the days before the Internet.
00:30 We got a bigger audience by people who went to the show,
00:34 bringing people who'd never heard of us before.
00:37 And by the -- You know, and you'd see them like --
00:39 And they looked just like the people in the Broadway audience
00:42 the first time. It's like,
00:43 "What the [bleep] is going on here?"
00:45 And by the end of it, they're there.
00:48 You kind of take a couple of breaths,
00:50 and you don't freak out, yeah.
00:51 -Do you walk around holding a margarita?
00:53 Is that something? [ Laughter ]
00:54 -No, if you had as many bought for your own,
00:57 as many bought for you or offered to you as I have,
00:59 you know, I kind of -- -That must get actually tiring.
01:01 Wherever you go, people are bringing --
01:02 If you check into the hospital,
01:04 the nurse would be holding a margarita on her.
01:06 -That's true. -I'm having an operation.
01:09 Now leave me alone. -Well, usually,
01:10 they put tapes on the gurney with you.
01:11 I had that happen. I woke up from surgery,
01:13 and there was a demo tape of a song.
01:15 -Oh, they want you to discover them.
01:16 -Yes. -Yeah.
01:17 -We've been looking to you. -Jimmy, help us out.
01:20 Go for it. -Okay.
01:22 -Ahh.
01:23 ♪♪
01:27 ♪ Wasted away in a margarita bill ♪
01:31 Yeah!
01:34 Jimmy, Sean P. wants to know,
01:35 what was going through your mind
01:36 when the Jamaican government shot at your plane?
01:40 -Ducking. -Ducking.
01:42 -There's two rules in rock and roll I've found.
01:45 Never forget to duck, and never forget,
01:47 it can go to hell at any minute now.
01:49 But, yes, ducking came in handy that day.
01:51 -They thought you had tremendous amounts of weed
01:54 on your plane? -They did,
01:55 and all I had on was Bono.

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