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  Brad Beheler
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  Raised in Waco, refined in the Hill Country, escaped from DFW. I've worked in just about every facet of the music business for 15 years. I like to write about it all. e-mail Brad Editor-in-Chief
  

  
  

Today In Music

• {1973}
  Country-rock/Alt-country pioneer/originator Gram Parsons of the Byrds and Flying Burritos, dies under mysterious conditions in Joshua Tree, California. His death at first is attributed to heart failure but later is officially announced as due to a drug overdose. His coffin is stolen by two of his friends, manager Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin, a former Byrds roadie, and it's taken to Joshua Tree where it's set afire to fulfill Gram's wishes. The two are picked up by police and the only charge that sticks is theft of the coffin itself as there is no law against stealing a corpse. Gram Parsons was just 26.