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Living And Dying, Laughing And Crying: the Legacy of Cliff Burton

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The undiminished, deep affection for Metallica’s late bassist Cliff Burton reveals a lot about the strength of fanhood in the implacable face of tragedy, says Joel McIver on the 40th anniversary of his death Cliff at his first soundcheck with Metallica at The Stone, San Francisco, 5 March 1983, by Brian Lew I spent six weeks in southern Sweden recently and encountered the spectre of Death in two…

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