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September 27, 1986 - Metallica Bassist Cliff Burton dies in bus crash - This Day in Automotive History
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The last photo of Cliff Burton taken backstage right after Metallica's concert in Stockholm, Sweden on September 26, 1986. He was killed in a tour bus crash later that night while the
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