mar 12, 1955 - The Death of Charlie Parker

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Superstar Bebop Saxophonist whose death influenced the Beat Generation.
He died partially from drug abuse.
His death is even mentioned in Howl - by Allen Ginsberg.
As seen here, "the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death,
and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio"

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