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On September 27, 1986, at exactly 3:41 p. m. PDT Burton died in a bus crash in Dörarp, Sweden, a rural area near Ljungby, as Metallica toured in support of the Master of Puppets album. He has been recognized as a very influential musician both during his career and after his death, placing ninth in a 2011 Rolling Stone magazine online reader poll recognizing the greatest bassists of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Metallica on April 4, 2009. Put into life by Mother Gaiael Louise Ann McDowell and Father Lloyd Edward Black d. November 12 1985 [2115] in Tacoma Washington's Tacoma Mary Bridge Hospital by Dr RA McCormick III. ]]]

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