Caption: Kirk Hammond from arriving at Groucho London, England …. CLIFF BURTON BIOGRAPHY TO HIT STORES Late METALLICA rocker CLIFF BURTON's enthusiasm is to be immortalised in a changed biography. The guitarist was killed when the band's tourbus crashed in Sweden back in 1986.
His surviving bandmates honoured him this year (09) when his architect joined Metallica onstage for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And the rockers are serving with his spark of life myth by promoting recent book, To Live Is To Die: The Life & Death Of Metallica’s Cliff Burton, on their proper website. Author Joel MCIver reveals he spoke with Burton's bandmates about the bassist's organize in the group, most particularly govern guitarist Kirk Hammett. He tells Metal Hammer, I’m deep down honoured that Kirk spoke to me for the Cliff Burton biography.
We talked about the rollercoaster terrorize of Metallica’s primeval job which he and Cliff experienced, from the era that both men joined the bandeau in untimely 1983 until Cliff’s extirpation three-and-a-half years later. The affect that Burton had on the calm of Metallica, both musically and as an specimen of how to cement to your principles in the music industry, was learned - and Kirk provided a outlook on that import which couldn’t have come from anywhere else.".
