Cliff Burton

Who was Cliff Burton?

Clifford Lee Burton was an American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American heavy 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 was killed in a bus accident in Kronoberg County, a rural area of Sweden, as the band was touring in support of the Master of Puppets album. Burton was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Metallica on April 4, 2009. He was selected as the ninth greatest bassist of all time in an online reader poll organized by Rolling Stone in 2011.