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    Cliff Burton. Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician who served as the bassist for the heavy metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He is renowned for his musicianship and influence.

  2. Jun 12, 2020 · For a band as longstanding and storied as Metallica, they have not been without ups and downs. No event had such a dramatic impact on Metallica's history, though, as the death of the bassist Cliff Burton.

  3. Sep 20, 2022 · Amid billowing dry ice can be seen the incongruous figure of 19-year-old Cliff Burton, unself-consciously headbanging, his playing full of impressively odd jazz timings and psychedelic overtones. When he decided to quit college to pursue music full-time, his parents were concerned.

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  4. Jul 9, 2008 · Thirty years after Metallica bassist Cliff Burton’s death, Metal Hammer celebrates Cliff’s short but influential life, and asks what path Metallica might...

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    • He was a clever child. Clifford Lee Burton was born in Castro Valley, California, on February 10, 1962. The third child of Jan and Ray Burton, the young Cliff was a loner who preferred reading and music to playing outside.
    • He was spurred by tragic circumstances. Cliff’s elder brother, Scott, died of a cerebral aneurism at age 16. Following this personal tragedy, the 13-year-old began practicing the bass for up to six hours a day.
    • His talents were obvious from the off. …as were those in his first band, who went by the not wholly encouraging name EZ Street. Despite the lousy handle, the group was quite the breeding ground for future talent, featuring Jim Martin on guitar and Mike ‘Puffy’ Bordin as an occasional stand-in drummer, both of whom would go on to form Faith No More.
    • He was essentially headhunted for Metallica. James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich first laid eyes on Cliff Burton in November 1982 at the Whisky A Go Go club on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where the bassist was playing with his band Trauma.
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  6. Sep 27, 2023 · On the night of September 27, 1986, a tragic accident took the life of much-loved Metallica bassist Cliff Burton. (Image credit: Icon and Image) By the summer of 1986, Metallica were incapable of doing wrong. Buoyed by the success of Master Of Puppets, the band set off on a two-month European tour with support act Anthrax.

  7. Sep 12, 2022 · “The major rager on the four-string motherfucker”, as the late Cliff Burton was approvingly described during his first gig with Metallica on March 5, 1983, is a revealing phrase. It’s a very California-in-the-’80s thing to call a musician, one part Bill & Ted and one part Spinal Tap, but at the same time it’s completely perfect.

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