From 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' to 'Feeling Mortal,' Variety picks 10 Kris Kristofferson immortal classics.

Kristofferson wrote "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down," huge hits for Janis Joplin and Johnny Cash, and was a Rhodes scholar, military man, janitor, helicopter pilot, actor and more.

Kris Kristofferson, a country music legend and actor, has died. His family told The Associated Press Sunday that he died at his home in Hawaii on Saturday. He was 88. No cause was given. Kristofferson had a decades-long career in music, from which he quietly retired in 2020.