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MIDNIGHT RIDERS: Allman with producer Don Was, left, and with his old friend Jackson Browne
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IN 2012, Gregg Allman learned that he had a recurrence of liver cancer. The news was bleak: The disease was terminal. He was told he had 12 to 18 months to live. Allman’s best friend of nearly 50 years, Chank Middleton, was puzzled by Allman’s reaction. “Gregg didn’t complain,” he says. “He didn’t worry. If they had told me that, I would’ve gone into straight shock.”