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Cliff Burton

1962 - 1986

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Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician who was the bassist for thrash metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He performed on the band's first three albums, Kill 'Em All (1983), Ride the Lightning (1984), and Master of Puppets (1986). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cliff Burton has received more than 6,562,074 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Cliff Burton is the 75th most popular musician, the 446th most popular biography from United States (up from 486th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Musician.

Cliff Burton was the bassist for Metallica from 1982-1986. He died in 1986 when Metallica's tour bus crashed in Sweden.

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  • 67.39

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  • 53

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  • 15.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Cliff Burton ranks 75 out of 2,662Before him are Syd Barrett, Jon Lord, Amir Khusrow, Cosima Wagner, Alexander Glazunov, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. After him are Iggy Pop, Mstislav Rostropovich, Goran Bregović, Paco de Lucía, Yehudi Menuhin, and Richard Clayderman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Cliff Burton ranks 5Before him are Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Jodie Foster, and Mohammed Omar. After him are Frank Rijkaard, Ralph Fiennes, Ruud Gullit, Nicolás Maduro, Demi Moore, David Fincher, and Steve Irwin. Among people deceased in 1986, Cliff Burton ranks 17Before him are Tenzing Norgay, Joseph Beuys, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, and Urho Kekkonen. After him are Celâl Bayar, Henry Moore, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Alva Myrdal, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Dmitry Kabalevsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cliff Burton ranks 446 out of 18,182Before him are Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Joan Crawford (1904), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Gordon Allport (1897), and Tennessee Williams (1911). After him are Montgomery Clift (1920), The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Glenn Close (1947), Pat Morita (1932), and Jim Jones (1931).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Cliff Burton ranks 19Before him are Bruce Springsteen (1949), Chuck Berry (1926), Charlie Parker (1920), Robert Johnson (1911), Chet Baker (1929), and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (1959). After him are Iggy Pop (1947), Yehudi Menuhin (1916), John Coltrane (1926), Lou Reed (1942), Paul Simon (1941), and Duke Ellington (1899).