On this day in 1975, psychedelic folk icon Tim Buckley played his very last live show before dying from an overdose the following day.

Buckley released his self-titled debut album in 1966, when he was just 19. That same year, Tim’s wife, Mary Guibert, gave birth to the couple’s only child, a son named Jeff.

Buckley strode on, 12-string in hand, perched on a beat-up car and picked out the notes of an exquisite song, then unrecorded (Getty) Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren”, written by Buckley ...