Kris Kristofferson
Movies
[2000] Mind Control in the Field of Art by Wes Penre They (Springmeier) mention among others Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Glen Campbell, and Willie Nelson as being programmers, working for the Illuminati. The Country Music Industry is nothing but a front for secret Illuminati drug smuggling, according to Fritz Springmeier, Cisco Wheeler, former Illuminati mind controlled slave Cathy O'Brien, and many more.
Early life
Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to parents Mary
Ann (née Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson, a U.S. Air Force
major general.[1] When Kris was a child, his father pushed
his son toward a military career (Kristofferson's paternal
grandfather was an officer in the Swedish Army).[2] Like most
military brats, he moved around frequently as a youth, finally
settling down in San Mateo, California, where he graduated from San
Mateo High School. An aspiring writer, Kristofferson enrolled in
Pomona College in 1954. He experienced his first dose of fame when
he appeared in Sports Illustrated's "Faces In The Crowd" for
his achievements in ate rugby union, football, and track and field.
He and fellow classmates revived the Claremont Colleges Rugby Club
in 1958, which has remained a Southern California rugby dynasty.
Kristofferson became a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Pomona College,
graduating in 1958 with a BA, summa cum laude in Literature.
Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University,
where his college was Merton. While at Oxford he was awarded his
blue for boxing and began writing songs. With the help of his
manager, Larry Parnes, he recorded for Top Rank Records under the
name Kris Carson. This early phase of his music career was
unsuccessful.[3]
In 1960, Kristofferson graduated with a BPhil in English
literature and married an old girlfriend, Fran Beer. Kristofferson
ultimately joined the U.S. Army and achieved the rank of captain.
He became a helicopter pilot after receiving flight training at Fort
Rucker, Alabama. He also completed Ranger School. During the
early 1960s, he was deployed to West Germany as a member of the
8th Infantry Division.[4] It was during this time that he resumed
his music career and formed a band. In 1965, when his tour of
duty ended, Kristofferson was offered a position as a professor
of English Literature at West Point. Instead, he decided to
leave the Army and pursue songwriting professionally. Kristofferson
sent some of his compositions to a friend's relative, Marijohn
Wilkin, a successful Nashville, Tennessee songwriter.
Music career
After being honorably discharged from the Army in 1965,
Kristofferson moved to Nashville. He worked at a variety of odd
jobs while struggling for success in music, burdened with medical
expenses resulting from his son's defective esophagus. He and his
wife soon divorced.
He got a job sweeping floors at Columbia Studios in Nashville. There
he met Johnny Cash, who initially accepted some of Kristofferson's
songs but chose not to use them. During Kristofferson's janitorial
stint for Columbia, Bob Dylan recorded his landmark 1966 album
Blonde on Blonde at the studio. Though he had the opportunity to
watch some of Dylan's recording sessions, Kristofferson never met
Dylan out of fear that he would be fired for approaching him.
He also worked as a commercial helicopter pilot at that time for
a south Louisiana firm called Petroleum Helicopters International
(PHI), based in Lafayette, Louisiana. Kristofferson recalled of
his days as a pilot, "That was about the last three years before I
started performing, before people started cutting my songs... I
would work a week down here [in south Louisiana] for PHI, sitting on
an oil platform and flying helicopters. Then I'd go back to
Nashville at the end of the week and spend a week up there trying to
pitch the songs, then come back down and write songs for another
week... I can remember 'Help Me Make It Through The Night' I wrote
sitting on top of an oil platform. I wrote 'Bobby Mcgee' down here,
and a lot of them [in south Louisiana]."[5]
In 1966, Dave Dudley released a successful Kristofferson single,
"Viet Nam Blues". In 1967, Kristofferson signed to Epic Records
and released a single, "Golden Idol"/"Killing Time", but the song
was not successful. Within the next few years, more Kristofferson
originals hit the charts, performed by Roy Drusky ("Jody and the
Kid"), Billy Walker & the Tennessee Walkers ("From the Bottle to the
Bottom"), Ray Stevens ("Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"), Jerry Lee
Lewis ("Once More with Feeling") Faron Young ("Your Time's Comin'")
and Roger Miller ("Me and Bobby McGee", "Best of all Possible
Worlds", "Darby's Castle"). Further, he achieved some success as a
performer himself, resulting from Johnny Cash's introduction of
Kristofferson at the Newport Folk Festival.
In a distinctly notable fashion, Kristofferson grabbed Cash's
attention when he unexpectedly landed his helicopter in Cash's yard
and gave him some tapes including "Sunday Morning Coming Down".[6]
Kristofferson signed to Monument Records as a recording artist. In
addition to running that label, Fred Foster also served as manager
of Combine Music, Kristofferson's songwriting label. His debut album
for Monument in 1970 was Kristofferson, which included a few new
songs as well as many of his previous hits. Sales were poor,
although this debut album would become a success the following year
when it was re-released under the title Me & Bobby McGee.
Kristofferson's compositions were still in high demand. Ray Price
("For the Good Times"), Waylon Jennings ("The Taker"), Bobby Bare
("Come Sundown"), Johnny Cash ("Sunday Morning Coming Down") and
Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make It Through the Night") all recorded
successful versions of his songs in the early 1970s. "For the Good
Times" (Ray Price) won 'Song of the Year" in 1970 from the Academy
of Country Music, while "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Johnny Cash)
won the same award from the Academy's rival, the Country Music
Association in the same year. This is the only time an individual
received the same award from these two organizations in the same
year for different songs.
In 1971, Janis Joplin, who dated Kristofferson until her death,
had a number 1 hit with "Me and Bobby McGee" from her posthumous
Pearl. When released, it stayed on the number one spot on the
charts for weeks. More hits followed from others: Ray Price ("I
Won't Mention It Again", "I'd Rather Be Sorry"), Joe Simon ("Help Me
Make It Through the Night"), Bobby Bare ("Please Don't Tell Me How
the Story Ends"), O.C. Smith ("Help Me Make It Through the Night")
Jerry Lee Lewis ("Me and Bobby McGee"), Patti Page ("I'd Rather Be
Sorry") and Peggy Little ("I've Got to Have You"). Kristofferson
released his second album, The Silver Tongued Devil and I in 1971;
the album was a success and established Kristofferson's career as a
recording artist in his own right. Soon after, Kristofferson made
his acting debut in The Last Movie (directed by Dennis Hopper) and
appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival. In 1972, he acted in
Cisco Pike and released his third album, Border Lord; the album was
all-new material and sales were sluggish. He also swept the Grammies
that year with numerous songs nominated, winning country song of the
year for "Help Me Make It Through the Night." Kristofferson's
1972 fourth album, Jesus Was a Capricorn initially had slow
sales, but the third single, "Why Me", was a success and
significantly increased album sales.
Kris with Rita Coolidge at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic 1972.
Film career
For the next few years, Kristofferson focused on acting. He appeared
in Blume in Love (directed by Paul Mazursky) and [fob fylan
starring-as actor!-] Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (directed by Sam
Peckinpah). He continued acting, in Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the
Head of Alfredo Garcia, Convoy, (another Sam Peckinpah film which
was released in 1978), [Martin Scorcese-directed-]Alice Doesn't Live
Here Anymore, Vigilante Force, a film based on the [far-right
Japanese militarist/neo-fascist, pro-Nazi-Japanese author who tried
to stage a bizarre, rightwing coup in Japanese army base in
1970-]Yukio Mishima novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the
Sea, and A Star Is Born (with Barbra Streisand), for which he
received a Golden Globe Award. In spite of his success with
Streisand, Kristofferson's solo musical career headed downward with
his non-charting ninth album, Shake Hands with the Devil. His
next film, Freedom Road, did not earn a theatrical release in the
U.S. Kristofferson's next film was Heaven's Gate, a phenomenal
industry-changing failure—in which, nonetheless, he turned in a
nuanced performance. In 1986 he starred in The Last days of Frank
and Jesse James with Johnny Cash.
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