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‘He experienced a full life of trauma’: documentary explores troubled tale of Gregg Allman
A new documentary focuses on the hugely successful musician whose life was punctuated by tragedy Late in the afternoon on 29 October 1971, one of the world’s greatest guitarists, Duane Allman, was riding his motorcycle when he swerved to avoid colliding with ...
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A new documentary focuses on the hugely successful musician whose life was punctuated by tragedy Late in the afternoon on 29 October 1971, one of the world’s greatest guitarists, Duane Allman, was riding his motorcycle when he swerved to avoid colliding with ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘He experienced a full life of trauma’: documentary explores troubled tale of Gregg Allman, A new documentary focuses on the hugely successful musician whose life was punctuated by tragedy Late in the afternoon on 29 October 1971, one of the world’s greatest guitarists, Duane Allman, was riding his motorcycle when he swerved to avoid colliding with a flatbed truck that suddenly stopped short in an intersection. He wound up slamming into the back of the truck with such force, it threw him under his bike which skidded and dragged him for 50 ruinous feet. Suffering a collapsed chest, a ruptured coronary artery and a damaged liver, Allman was pronounced dead three hours later. He was 24. Four decades after that tragic event, when journalist Alan Light was hanging out with Gregg Allman to ghostwrite the musician’s memoir, titled My Cross to Bear, he couldn’t help but notice how present Duane remained in his life. “In Gregg’s house, he was surrounded by photos of Duane, notes from Du
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