Dennes Dale Boon 01/04/58 – 22/12/85 Number 89 on Rolling Stone’s top 100 greatest guitarists of all time but best known as the guitarist and vocalist for Californian Punk Rock trio Minutemen, was killed in Arizona when the van he was traveling crashed off the road. Boon had been ill with a fever and was lying in the back of the van without a seatbelt when it crashed. He was thrown out of the back door and died instantly, the result of a broken neck.

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