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The news, buried in a news release earlier this
week, comes a year after the "Me and Bobby McGee" singer played
his last gig on the Outlaw Country Cruise in the Caribbean in
January 2020.
As the coronavirus pandemic shuttered live music venues last
year, Kristofferson's decision not to return to the road felt
natural, his longtime manager Tamara Saviano told Variety on
Thursday.
"It was just sort of a slow changing of the guard thing,"
Saviano said. "To us on this side of the fence it was an
organic, normal, 'things are changing' thing. Kris is aging;
Kris is 84. It didn't feel like such big news to us."
The announcement came in a news release that said a new
management company would represent Kristofferson's business
affairs, alongside his son John, after Kristofferson "offically
retired in 2020."
Kristofferson rose to fame in the 1970s in Nashville and wrote
classics including "Help Me Make it Through the Night" and "For
the Good Times."
He was also a sought-after actor, winning a Golden Globe for his
lead role in the 1976 version of "A Star is Born" opposite
Barbra Streisand.
Kristofferson began experiencing debilitating memory loss in his
mid-70s which his wife in 2016 said had been diagnosed as a
result of Lyme's Disease, and which had much improved.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles; Editing by Matthew
Lewis)
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