THRASH BASH
Metallica’s (above) 3 influential third LP Master Of Puppets is released. It later becomes the first heavy metal album to be selected for the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.
MANUEL DOWN
The Band’s co-singer and 4 pianist Richard Manuel hangs himself in Florida, after a gig by the re-formed group. He had been battling addiction: his bandmate Rick Danko tells Connecticut paper The Day he believes it was “a goddamned silly accident”.