It was 5 o’clock somewhere — across the Atlantic to be precise — when Lori Cecil sidled up to the bar at Times Square’s Margaritaville offshoot around noon Sunday.
It was 5 o’clock somewhere — across the Atlantic to be precise — when Lori Cecil sidled up to the bar at Times Square’s Margaritaville offshoot around noon Sunday.
Cecil, 64 — visiting from Dallas for the US Open — made it a point to stop at Jiimmy Buffett’s chain for lunch to honor the late beach bum troubadour, 76, who died Friday after a battle with skin cancer.
“I’m from Miami, so of course it was a big part of my life, and I live in Dallas now and we have a lot of Parrotheads there,” she said, adding that her favorite Buffett tune is “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere.”
“I was sad when we heard the news. Just sad. All I can say about it is we lost a great one.”
“We decided to stop in for lunch to kind of honor his memory,” said Cecil, who was there with her husband.
“I don’t remember the first time I heard the music, I just grew up around it. It was always there, we were always listening to Jimmy Buffett.”
Buffett’s brand of booze-soaked country-folk ballads inspired legions of hardcore fans now known as “Parrotheads.”
The seafaring Alabama native opened a bar in Key West, Fla., and named it after his only top-10 hit, 1977’s “Margaritaville.” It then expanded to dozens of resort locations around the world, helping make the singer a billionaire — and one of the richest musicians in history.
Colleen Broome, 26, a model, actor and singer originally from Palm Beach, told the Post her dad was a big Parrothead, and that she grew up listening to Buffett’s music.
