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19th September 1973 - Death of country-rock pioneer inspires car crime
26-year-old musician Gram Parsons dies of “multiple drug use” (morphine and tequila) in a California motel room. His death inspired one of the more bizarre automobile-related crimes on record: Two of his friends stashed his body in a borrowed hearse and drove it into the middle of the Joshua Tree National Park, where they doused it with gasoline and set it on fire.
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I met Phil Kaufman in London in the mid 1980's. He told me this story. He also told me that he had a cock that hung below his knee- he then rolled up his jeans over the top of his cowboy boots to reveal a tattoo of a rooster ! He was a character all right.