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HAPPY CLIFF BURTON DAY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 10, 2019…TODAY IS CLIFF BURTON’S BIRTHDAY. TODAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 57. TODAY IS ALSO “CLIFF BURTON DAY”.

CLIFF BURTON TRAGICALLY DIED IN SWEDEN DURING THE EUROPEAN LEG OF THE ‘DAMAGE INC’ TOUR, WHEN THE TOUR BUS THE BAND WAS TRAVELLING IN SKIDDED OFF THE ROAD.

BURTON JOINED METALLICA IN 1982 AND WAS THEIR BASSIST ON THE GROUP’S FIRST THREE ALBUMS ‘KILL ‘EM ALL’ ‘RIDE THE LIGHTNING’ AND ‘MASTER OF PUPPETS’. PLUS HE RECEIVED A POSTHUMOUS WRITING CREDIT FOR MATERIAL ON ‘..AND JUSTICE FOR ALL’

HERE’S SOME METALLICA FROM 1983

photo-lamont’s Metallica archives