Living And Dying, Laughing And Crying: the Legacy of Cliff Burton

The undiminished, deep affection for Metallica’s late bassist Cliff Burton reveals a lot about the strength of fanhood in the implacable face of tragedy, says Joel McIver on the 40th anniversary of his death

Cliff at his first soundcheck with Metallica at The Stone, San Francisco, 5 March 1983, by Brian Lew

I spent six weeks in southern Sweden recently and encountered the spectre of Death in two significant locations. The first was at a rocky beach called Hovs Hallar, near the town of Ängelholm, where the late director Ingmar Bergman shot a couple of apocalyptic scenes from his 1957 film The Seventh Seal. If you know the famous opening scene, you’ll recall that the personification of Death suddenly appears next to...

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