Title: To Live Is To Die: The Life and Tragic Death of Metallica’s Cliff Burton Author: Joel McIver I wanted to read this Cliff Burton biography as soon as I heard about it over a year ago. As a big fan of both Metallica and Cliff, I first picked up the bass to play along … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Today marks the 24th anniversary of Cliff Burton‘s death. He died at age 24, on September 27, 1986 – so that makes this particular year a little more poignant; Cliff has been gone for as long as he was upon the earth. Cliff Burton was a huge inspiration for me. Until I … Read more
This week the official Cliff Burton Biography entitled To Live Is To Die was released. For those of you not acquainted with Cliff, he was the bassist for Metallica in the early 1980s until he died tragically in a tour bus accident in 1986. Burton was know for a larger than life personality, his bell … Read more