IN THE EARLY hours of September 27, 1986, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton died when his band’s tour bus crashed on a country road near the town of Ljungby in southern Sweden. When you visit the site nowadays, the scene appears not to have changed: if you consult the original photos of the bend in the road where the bus spun and fell over, crushing Cliff as he fell through the window, it’s obvious that everything is pretty much the same. It’s a long, empty road
