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Metallica band member died at age 24

by Staff Aroostook Republican
16 years ago
Text by McKenzie Ray Rossignol
Artwork by Brandon M. Doody

Woodland Consolidated School, Grade 3

    In 1986 Metallica’s greatest bass player, Cliff Burton died in a bus crash.
    He died in the morning right around 5 or 6 a.m. The other people in the band made a funeral for Cliff Burton. He was just 24 years old.

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