Clifford Lee Cliff Burton was an American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American thrash metal band Metallica.
Burton joined Metallica in 1982 and performed on the band's first three studio albums, Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets. He also received a posthumous writing credit for the song To Live Is to Die from the band's fourth studio album ...And Justice For All.
On September 27, 1986, Burton died in a bus accident in rural southern Sweden as the band...
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